les freathy

Thought prehaps some of you interested in aviation would like to see these samples of some original artwork i aqquired a few years ago drawn before the war by a chap called Mainwaring who i believe was a illustrator for comics ,magazines and newspapers

Katy ay Beltring a couple of years ago

Heres three at staemer point in Aden do they help Bodger

K6 6x4 power equipment lorry used by the RAF, not sure if its 10 or 20 kva

Whist putting the photos back in the files i noticed this one of Walter Denton LTD

Richard F i believe i promised to show this photo of the pioneer in use with E.A.R.A.T the east Anglian roadstone and transport co whilst on a road burning job in Townwall St Dover , at long last i have found said print im sure you will regonise the flats in the back ground as will many of you who have travelled abroad through the eastern docks. In the same theme a couple of road burners used by well known firm Glossop.

A set of photos showing the mountaineer in service with Siddle Cook and one with Wilkie LTD extensive use of the Dyson ex military 40 ton transporter trailer here

Another interesting saga in the trailer theme is radar, whilst some are quite east to identify others can be a real headache and take a lot of searching especially when the original model has been updated and in some cases altered outwardly. So to start here is a 1944 photo of the radar AA No1 MK2 ® and a either a 15 or 24 kva towed generator

A nice period shot of the K2 ambulance

two shots of the Bedford-Lacre runway sweeper on the RS chassis

Picked up a book the other week in a remainder shop called Bearded Brigands the story of the New Zealand LRDG, amongst the super photos was this on of a Morris 15cwt water tanker and 30cwt CS/11 trucks

Morris 8cwt PU, if he hasn,t blown it yet he,s about to

Various morris at Calais 15cwt and 30cwt cdf, the photo caption reads Britian had no lack of transport a couple of months later that all changed

Yes i noticed that, could it be Patton on a early mission or is he there to kick a--e

Nice shot of pioneer towing light recovery trailer, it just says Waal bridge on the back

A batch of interesting photos of British vehicles in WW2 the first taken at Haynes garage in Maidstone one of many used to service military equipment, seen in this photo a Bedford OY, Austin 8hp 2 seater and Austin Tilly. Behind are various 3 ton trucks including i think aCrossley IGL 6x4.

The second is a ordanance depot early in the war depicting masses of vehicles in the park, the van in the front looks to be a requistioned Guy, to the right a Ford AA tractor unit others i can make out in the distance are Bedford OX 30cwt Austin 3 tonners, and Humber utilities.

The third i am sure is taken at Howe barracks in canterbury (not sure if was named that during the time) at what i would call round the back in Military road. It has now been built up with the county court house and civic centre plus others but i remember it looking similar to this photo in the 1960s when delivering to building works then starting here but then again i maybe wrong, anyway vehicles include Ford WO1A, Guy Ant, Ford WOT3 30cwt and CMP 3 ton trucks

Trevor the AV RAF numbers could have been used on FWDs post war used as generator trucks for mobile radar units

Marty i am sure that is a external air filter fitted for these conditions but i maybe wrong meantime heres a photo of a M3 halftrack in Algeria fitted with anti grenade screens

A Dodge 6x6 in the Sahara

I,ll vouch for the Romney marsh mountain rescue team being a original flocker, the mountains go down instead of up

Ted the aircraft on the trailer is a beaufort the photo is one of a set i have, i reconise the photo is one of the set i put up in another web set long ago it has a green tint and then i had not worked out the use of colour saturation and the pointer was on green hence a tinted B/W photo

A couple of Dodge photos from the French in Africa period both probably in Morroco or algeria?

Thanks for the reply, i have known John for around 35 years so will get in touch with him re the subject

I found that website on goggle for the 262 coy but when i tried to enter it wanted to down load somthing and then wanted me to sign, i note you have save some photos from it so is it safe. At this moment i declined as i do not fully understand the reason why

The truck is pretty standard but i am very interested in that semi trailer its not one i have seen before and i would like to find out its purpose, as usual half of the interesting bit is cut off. Deep in the bowls of my archive i have a late 1940s TM data book so will check this out for info

Tony, remember this day at Mike Stallwoods farm when you collected the Rogers trailer and even earlier with the colour shot at Northfleet when we took a run up the 25

Les