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  1. Thanks, Wally. There seem to have been a few in RE as well. In view of the 17xxxxx number this one must have been rebuilt before the 1949 series came into use.
  2. Photographs show Matadors in the series H41xxxxx to H49xxxxx, so is this a post-war rebuild number? It looks as though it was rebuilt at some point after WW2 ended, either before the introduction of the 1949 VRN series, or after the RA - RH series was no longer being used.
  3. As far as I know this is not possible. 1949 type military registrations, such as 66YY23, are only used by the UK armed forces, although the format of their numbers has changed over time; when such vehicles are disposed of by the military they have to be re-registered with a civilian number. Given that it's a 1945 vehicle it was presumably sold some time ago, which should mean that it has already been given a civilian number at the time of the original disposal sale.
  4. Chassis number 0853248 was the subject of a previous enquiry; if you aren't aware of the background to Wally's response then https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/43600-aec-matador-census-numbers/ may be helpful.
  5. https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishjeep/34600442961/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishjeep/33944654393/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishjeep/33944654683/ If the links don't work [I always have trouble with Flickr links], search "britishjeep" on Flickr, they're all RMP VW Beetles, on pages 27/28.
  6. The Berlin Brigade existed until 1994, after the reunification of Germany in October 1990. I can't read the final two characters on the car in the picture, but 21XB42, 21XB43 and 25XB36 were apparently Opel Kapitan cars used as escort vehicles [on the East German autobahn to Berlin?] by the RMP. So far as I know [it isn't my particular area of interest] XA to XF had initially been used for, mostly Canadian built, miscellaneous vehicles in the UK, with XG onwards used for Berlin Brigade. Gaps in the earlier series were also filled in over time by Berlin vehicles. The Berlin series eventually ran from XA to somewhere in XK.
  7. In service, but Hong Kong 1954-56 according to the website of the Military Vehicle Trust South East Midlands Area/Archive pictures/ China Station.
  8. From BMLR again: 17CL48 to 20CL22 Land Rover Series 2 Mark 6 ½ Ton 4x2 6/VEH/27756 25CL50 to 25CL99 Land Rover Mk 7 Station Wagon FFW 6/VEH/28020 35CL21 to 35CL40 Land Rover Mk 7 cargo with tilt KL/H/0100 I have a reference which shows some Spartans carried nnGSnn series low numbers. It's not entirely reliable though and not a period I know anything about otherwise.
  9. According to Taylor and Fletcher "British Military Land Rovers", contract KL/H/0252 covered: 66AA27 - 66AA36 1410-00049-58 RHD Airfield Lighting 66AA37 - 66AA47 1410-00392-402 RHD GS They show the 1410 code as being for the period 9/59 to 7/60. Their only comment on colour for the 1,138 RAF Mk.6 is "the majority were delivered in the service's Blue-Grey livery, there were also examples in Bronze Green as early as 1959." [They include a photgraph of 14AA84 in Blue-Grey with a blue soft-top and a yellow bonnet.] I hope this is of some use to you.
  10. The signs are very neatly done, presumably by a professional signwriter, so there would seem to be an implication that their presence has been agreed, and possibly paid for, by the vehicle owners. The battalion was a TA unit, so possibly there is some formal connection between the unit and the vehicle owners?
  11. It seems to have been used for for trials and testing of 'production' prototypes as distinct from the manufacturers' development prototypes which usually seem to have had civilian registrations. "British Military Trucks of the Cold War" shows, for example, 00SP44, a Militant FV11047 with sides and tailgate removed to carry containers, 00SP62, one of four prototype heavy recovery tractors 00SP60-00SP63 based on Militant 3 chassis and tested at FVRDE, and 01SP16, a Land Rover 1 ton forward control prototype.
  12. I don't know about the others, but there are issues with the ERMs given in "Quarter Ton" for both Jeeps and Land Rovers.
  13. The Minature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association used to have lists of VRNs on their old website, which are no longer on the current one, at least when I last looked some time ago. They seem to have been fairly accurate, although I have found more than a few errors. Their 'Pre-1950' vehicle listing included 00SA01 to 00SA99 as Cromwell 6pdr Mk 6,7,8. This was the only entry in S, apart from the previously mentioned SP [Special Projects]. I assume this range would have become extinct in the early 1950s, but have no information as my interest is B and C vehicles only.
  14. I don't know about military vehicles in this context, but new build civilian cars started to change from semaphore trafficators to modern type flashing indicators around the end of 1954, presumably as a result of a change to C & U Regs. Semaphores were usually fitted into the central body pillar on each side, and were quite short, so although they were illuminated [rather feebly and they didn't flash] they were not particularly easy to see, and were not commonly fitted to larger vehicles because of visibility issues. Flashing indicators were fitted in pairs front and rear, as currently, so were much more versatile and more visible. Hope this helps.
  15. The aircraft could be a Sea Hornet, which was carried by a few fleet carriers for a short period circa 1950. The image is too out of focus to be sure, but I can't see anything which would positively exclude the possibility.
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