les freathy

Here is another look at the Shelvoke truck, there power unit was a Leyland 411E turbo charged engine Its not well known but Shelvoke also went for the 14 tonne range as seen here and how about the chart of proposed varients

50 ton Dyson, looks to be loaded with large cabinets

Explorers in problems, the look on the face of the fella with the smashed front suspension says it all

Alan about 25 years ago i paid a number of visits to the artillery library the one of Shooters hill that looks like a castle, i remember i found a number of albums with some good pre war shots from India and Afghanistan depicting guns and tractors, likewise post war in germany with Matadors Militants and morris quads. As you stated lots of WW1 items and large manufactures drawings

Looks like it Phill but no details on the back of the snap, yes please if you can scan them that would be great cheers Les

Dont ask me i have limited knowledge on german uniforms, two more here some horse drawn equipment and a german bridging truck and trailer

helps to include the photos

heres a few interesting items foryou land rover boys

Just noticed, he looks a mean bugger in the cab

" from the RAF in Burma with a Thew Lorain crane, hey guys am i the only one with any snaps

Heavy bus based on a Bussing chassis, been informed these are NSKK personel

Taking in the sunshine, truck may be a mercedes radio truck

Tony, here you are kicking up the dust in the old arena at Beltring was 4 or 5 scammells on dead tow

Morning all John here are some images of the Liner and Orme evans lightweight saw benches If you do decide to rebuild the trailer i have the parts list book which covers the trailer and has some part illustrations

Give me time John i will find some photos of said sawbench in my archives cheers Les

heres a nice biggy of the gun tractor

To bring this thread together here are images of the contenders The Bedford TM the winner as we all know, the Leyland Mastiff ( it even made the Aldershot army show in the mid 1970s) the Foden, afraid i cant lay my hands on the cargo photo but this recovery shows the type of cab that they submitted and the shelvoke Going back to the TM i have always wondered why the cream and black livery on the early prototype prehaps Bedford thought it more prolific

this IWM shot provides a good view of the ambulances

a photo of a drum that broke loose and ended up on Greatstone beach

Richard is correct Bedford Foden and Leyland were contenders for the 8 tonne range with as we know the TM winning but there was another contender i have a file on these British prototypes and will dig out some info also somewhere a shot of the Australian leyland 6 wheeler

IS ti one of the mine protected bedfords

We all have photos of vehicles that we have questions on but can gather no answers. In all the years i have been involved with military vehicles i still a number of unanswered questions and thought that this thread would be the best place to start as it will probably cover a multitude of types and periods and military vehicles. If we can keep this to the vehicles only, we have a thread to handle the mechanics of equipment. So to start a question that has bugged me for years, the Leyland 19H heavy truck, the RAF had a large number of them in service covering a multitude of roles and were used in the late 1950s to the 1970s. Question is where did they all go when surplused i have only seen a few tanker models on construction sites during my past travels and they were probably to far trashed when the company finished with them to be preserved, ive not seen any in preservation or photos of them in scrap yards. It seems odd that a number of the Hippo MK2 and 2A have survived but not these later 10 tonners, a tractor unit and two tankers on sites attached, over to you guys

I will certainly have a dig out at some items i have, bet i dont catch one like that

There is a ambulance in the Battle of Britian Museum at Hawkinge used to belong to Dave Philpot but could now do with some exterior work to smarten it up

three more working with fortress bombers