Miss Milly Tant — The AEC Militant Recovery Vehicle
This is the remarkable story of Miss Milly Tant, one of Britain's best-known and most respected surviving recovery vehicles. Built by AEC in 1954 for the British Army, she would go on to serve London Transport, National Rescue and Brooklands Museum during a working life spanning more than seventy years. When sold for scrap in 1981, her future looked uncertain, but in 1983 I found and purchased her and she returned to active service with National Rescue at Brooklands. Over the following decades Milly undertook a remarkable variety of work, documented here.
Following my retirement from National Rescue, Milly became a permanent resident at Brooklands Museum, where she continued to assist with aircraft restoration, exhibit installation and engineering projects for many years. Milly retired in 2025. To ensure her preservation for future generations she was sold to the London Bus Museum, where she has been restored to her original LT colour scheme and is now part of the museum's collection. This playlist contains rare footage spanning decades of Milly's extraordinary working life — see also www.millytant.com.
All videos in this playlist
See also older Brooklands videos from before 2000, where Milly first joined National Rescue, and the re-engineering of Brooklands and the track, where she did much of the crane work moving the Wellington Hangar.
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