les freathy

I have this workshop down as a long wheelbase Mountaineer, info tells me it was built as a repair vehicle and compressor vehicle for one of the Middle east pipeline projects

A interesting Hardy Spicer advert from 1955 showing a good overhead shot of a constructor cab and chassis

some more MWs to enjoy

How many of you remember those shilling war comics back in the 1950/60s, i had em piled to the ceiling and re read them over and over,one the GMS picture combat library ran a series of cut away drawings on military equipment. for interest here is one on a 1940 Vosper MTB. Whilst on the subject of cut away drawings whilst in Asda ( yes i do have to go there) i picked up a super book on a lot of those illustrations from the Eagle it was reduced to £10.00 and i think a super buy on a nostalgic subject

I presume this thread is for all types of military advertising so here are some American truck ads of WW2

Not exactly wartime but a look into the end users of demobbed WW2 RAF Thornycroft Amazons

the crane on the left is possibly a Morrison, i have a 1932 catalouge that shows one identical unfortunatly its that big and heavy i cant put it on the scanner, the catalouge that is

Whilst attending the annual classic truck show at Gaydon last year i found in the main model room a guy who builds or rather engineers classic trucks for radio control and on his table was this excellent model of a Diamond T in Pickfords livery. I am sure i can safely say it is the best model i have ever seen of this truck and i have seen a few more so because of its large size where no mistakes can be hidden, after my initial views i was then treated to a authentic sounding Hercules engine and even air brakes blowing the valves believe this is the best

Seems a couple got missed here they are

Somwhere on this site i mentioned my dads experiences in WW2 and thought it was on this thread but cant see it so we must have something else running on the same type of subject, I have found a few snap shots he took at the end of the war when the flotilla ended up at Cuxhaven and were assigned the job of clearing mines and explosives in the waters around the area. In the photos you will see some captured E boats that were also used for this purpose along with mine sweepers, i remember the mention of employing some of the germans to assist in this job The photos show some of the motor launches, e boats and minesweepers cheers Les

Now for two not so common trucks that saw service in WW2 the Dennis Max and the ERF C15, both in the 5to6 ton class of trucks

I thought it would be interesting to run a series of photos on lessr known british military vehicles there were lots of them from the early years through ww2 into the post war period. they would be types where it could be difficult on individual vehicles to sustain a good thread which would run out of steam quickly but grouped together there will plenty of meat in it. Some can be prototypes others run of the mill that seem to get little publicity for instance in WW2 Dennis, Maudslay and dodge kew built various vehicles for military use, so to start a little known Britsh attempt to match the US Dodge 3/4 ton weapons carrier was this prototype Austin K7

Somewhere in this site i mentioned the models at REME museum in large scale i think 1/24 but they could be larger heres a couple

Desperation crept in at times

This should anwser your questions

certainly not around but a Armadillo on a 2 ton Fordson

Taking a wander through some of my old mags i came across these items

Correct on that Kuno the Armstrong was built under licence from Pavesi from 1927

Just realised i had a few more in the files including a couple of ex military items

managed to hook out a few old pre war ads on military vehicles hopeful they will attract a few comments cheers Les

Agree on that Mike i like em an all heres a photo of the same type of trailer when in service with the Royal Engineers in the 1950s towed by a Mack no. The second is a Dyson or crane 40 ton transporter trailer

The Daimler goes to war, and in colour to

OK Will now to get you fired up here are the other two photos i have in a set of the Albion tipper plenty of ribs underneath to consider, if you feel the SWB general service is the route you want to take heres what it should look like, for interest the reg is 85 BL 38 cheers Les

Weve got faith in you Will, anything of a rare nature is always worth serious consideration one day she will look like this

Diamond geezer Tony Graves has bought Bishops T so its in good hands when researching the book i took a number of photos of the truck and only used a couple in the the book so will dig them out and add them to the thread i also copied some of Bishops photos of her in her working days unfortunatley these were sealed behind a plastic cover on a board and are not the best quality but will put the best up cheers Les