While inputting the data from HS8/1013 into a new database I came across several ladies with MTC listed as their employment they were drivers / chauffers serving with the Mechanised Transport Corps. A little known body it seems - at least to me! Links with more info at: mtcwomenwwii.blogspot.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Mechanised_ Transport_Corps
One of my original photos from the negs i have on the MTC. Keith INFO from wikipiedia The Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), sometimes erroneously called the Motor Transport Corps, was a British women's organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War. It was a civilian uniformed organisation that provided drivers for government departments and other agencies. Among other roles, members drove staff cars, including for foreign dignitaries whose drivers were not accustomed to driving on British roads, and ambulances in the Blitz. The Mechanised Transport Training Corps (MTTC) was founded in 1939 by Mrs G. M. Cooke CBE as a women's voluntary civilian organisation. It was recognised by the Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and renamed the MTC, and its members were conscripted and received pay. Various women who served with the MTC were awarded one MBE, two BEMs, nine Croix de guerre, ten Colonial Medals, a Certificate for Gallantry, and mentions in dispatches. Some of the best-known members were the women who volunteered to drive ambulances inFrance at the beginning of the war as part of Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit and became known as the "Spearettes". Their endeavours were held in high esteem by the French and it is said that "petulant General de Gaulle peremptorily ordered the hospital to be disbanded because the crowds at the Paris Victory Parade dared to cheer: 'Vive Spears!'" Groups from the MTC drove ambulances and other transport in Syria, Egypt, and Palestine, as well as driving SOE agents to airfields to board the planes that would parachute them into occupied France. A notable MTC driver was Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's driver, who subsequently claimed that she had had an affair with him. Despite the appearance of the character Samantha Stewart in the television series Foyle's Warthere is no evidence that any MTC member was ever seconded to a police force.
Here is a book on The MTC if you can find one. Red tape notwithstanding : a story of the Mechanised Transport Corps in France from November 1939 to June 1940 / by Yvonne MacDonald.
