Hello. Where were screwed thoses plates on vehicules ? If anyone can show couple of photos showing thoses plates on vehicules, it would ne nice...thank you.
Here is a Morris with a ID plate on the wooden body. most 15Cwt had the ID plate put on the side and a Bedford MW with a ID plate on the side.
Hello tommy40 The ID plate on a k2 ambulance was screwed inside the cab above the drivers head, over the top of the door into the back,
Tommy, if you look at the Bedford with the bonnet up on this thread, you can see a makers plate on the bulkhead. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/1940/30097-bef-army-troops-vehicle-arm-service-markings-others.html Most of those that have been posted on here relate to the GS (General Service) body which was built separately. There would have been body plates, chassis plates, perhaps a contract plate in the cab as well as sometimes a lubrication diagram. Motorcycles at this time had them on the rear number plate bracket. Have you found any of those ?
Hello Radek, Contract V3729 (Austin Lorry 30cwt 4x2 office G/S): - census numbers L4156868 until 4157867 These are early 1940 numbers. Jan Hi Jan, many thnaks, for interesting and usefull info. It si possible add to thes census numbers chassis numbers? Cheers Radek
Morris CD' s Calais 1939 and with a bit of googling a now pic from t'internet (I thought the gate may have been blasted away in May 1940 but it has only lost its Tower). Craig
Anyone come across these before ? Guy Lizard 4x4 trucks , some with BEF and it also appears the searchlight trucks were 4x4 Link- Guy Motors
According to Vanderveen, only a few prototypes were produced in 1938/39. I suppose some could have found their way to France. And the chassis was used for ACVs (but you knew that!). Chris
Like that pic - thanks. I see the Guy Motors thread confirms that some went to France. I've never seen a pic though. Chris
Guys, these were only prototype and i dont think any went to France, but then again in desperation who knows. Maybe with all these German photos of the French campaign coming out something may appear cheers Les
Sometimes these mysterious stories about models which disappeared with the BEF gain a life of their own. I don't know about this case but publications relating to wartime Nortons stated for years that the full consignment of special lightweight models was either lost in France with the BEF or sunk in the channel on the way. In this way they explained away why Nortons carried on making the same old heavy pre-war sidevalve. We now know from the Ordnance records that the batch of lightweights wasn't even delivered until October 1942 and was simply not taken up after trials. It probably wan't that robust and included so much magnesium alloy that it could never have been made for the price (a bit of a fire risk too !). It might have been better PR for Guys to say that their prototypes were lost with the BEF and that afterwards they were too busy with production rather than admit that they might not have been successful in the MEE trials.
It sounds a bit daft but he wasn't mixing up the 'Panther' with a 'Lynx', was he ? I'm sure there were late 1930s Lynx type lorries out there. 'Googling' "Beer is Best" and "1938" gives a lot of info about a brewery industry advertising campaign and also shows an aircraft of that name. Might it have just been the name given to the lorry by the crew ?
I've got vague memories of seeing a BEF photo where you can make out 'Beer is Best' on a lorry. The history page about the Guys is not very detailed and doesn't read well but as the Guy 4x4s FAT were in service and BEF were taking any vehicles they could get hold of , maybe the Guy Lizards did get there. In the same Guy history page there is a picture of a nice Guy Searchlight truck , the article infers its 4x4 but it doesn't look it. Were these used by the BEF?