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The Leyland Retriever was a 6x4 truck produced by Leyland Motors for the British Army between 1939 and 1945. It is perhaps best known as the providing the basis for ‘Monty’s Caravan’, a mobile field command post used in Normandy by Field Marshall Montgomery and now preserved at the IWM Duxford (although the ‘caravan’ part of it was actually a much more stylish Italian effort!) The Leyland Retriever was one of the most important general-purpose trucks used by the British during the war, with some 6,542 being manufactured.