Peter Maxfield

Thanks again - very helpful!

Thank you Gordon! I think it's a ¾-ton. I found a photo of a 1-ton which was very similar, but as you say, more studs - looks like 8.

Could anyone positively identify this truck for me please? I'm guessing it's an early Chevrolet - the cab shape and detail below the window seem right. The filler also, but other side to usual - Canadian-built, maybe? Although the side looks flat in the photo, the wheel arch flare is there. My photo title is just the closest I could spot. The guys are all B.M.M.E. (British Military Mission to Ethiopia). It's 1945, or early '46. They're at Lideta Aerodrome next to the Italian-built Terminal building, and their favourite pastime is driving to their favourite spot for swimming, catching and cooking fish - Lake Bischoftu, a volcanic crater lake south of Addis Ababa. My father, RAF Sgt. Peter Maxfield, is only just half in the photo, standing behind the truck - probably about to drive (though I can't see him in the thumbnail). Most of the others are Army; dad was briefly the only RAF chap there. Other photos have a Morris PU8 and he mentions a 15cwt Dodge. An instant colourisation attached too.