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    MWR - An introduction / Restoration blog.

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    20 hours ago, Rob.Brindley said:

    Thanks Andy - we're really enjoying working on the truck and sharing the porgress as we go. Both the forum and facebook have their merits, but it will definitely be easier to look back here once it's done and follow the progress more easily. I've also started putting together a book (nothing special) that we'll keep in the truck at shows for people to look through if they're interested. 

    We're lucky that we have time to work at the minute. We've put in 9 or 10 hour days every Saturday/ Sunday and worked most Friday nights since we've had it. I play in a couple of bands so, come Spring, I'll be out on the road most weekends. Got to make the most of the time now and try to get all the jobs that require 2 people done before I'm not available much.

    Will put up another update on Sunday evening.

     

    Rob

    That's a lot of hours you're getting in but like you say you have to make the most of it when you can. 

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    Royal Navy vehicle colours in WW2

    in MV Chatter

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    21 hours ago, LarryH57 said:

    Over the years I have collected a few photos of RN vehicles, mostly in ports and harbours and shore bases etc.

    Strangely (or perhaps not) I can't find any 'RN vehicle colour regulations' to confirm what was in use but I suspect that after the early war period of light grey it bacame whatever the Army Regulations were (which would have suited the manufacturers)

    Inititally I think the RN used light grey (like this perserved Tilly) , though some people maintain the idea that the RN always used dark sea blue, which I suggest that was late-war 

    The Wrens in their car photo, with lorry behind, looks to have black mudguards typical of Fords, and the ambulance also looks more light grey  - than dark sea blue (similar to the blue that Fleet Air Arm used on Vought F4U Corsairs in the Pacific). 

    Civil registrations, white blackout edging and the use of RN may be a hangover from prewar & early-war like the RAF.

    Also it looks like the ambulance was supplied by the British Red Cross, but I guess it is still an RN vehicle

    RN Ambulance.jpg

    h42.jpg

    RN Wrens in car.jpg

    Two very nice Royal Navy Commers. I must admit in all my current Commer research that is the first RN Ambulance bodied Commer I have seen. 

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