In August 1942, when General Bernard Montgomery took over command of the 8th British Army, he was allocated various vehicles for his personal use. Monty kept the Leyland Retriever, with an Italian caravan body until the end of the war. This vehicle was originally built for the Italian General Annabale Bergonzeli, but was captured in 1941 by a troop of the 7th British tank division at Beda Fomm south of Benghazi (Libya). At the workshops of the artillery depot headquarters in Egypt the superstructure was removed from the Lancia 3RO chassis and fitted onto a Leyland Retriever. The interior of the body was divided into two rooms. In the front was a WC and wash basin and in the rear map cabinets, a folding map table and a bed/couch. General Montgomery claimed that he had only given up his caravan twice, once for King George VI and once for the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Daimler MK II scout car was one of the most widely used English armoured scout cars from World War II and was used by all the Commonwealth armed forces and in all theatres of war. This scout car was mainly used in tracked vehicle units and by the end of World War II 6,626 had been made