Rob.Brindley

Fantastic, Richard - Thank you! I've added a couple of photos of the project as it stands at the minute. It's currently spread out across four barns at the current owners farm. We know following it's disposal in 1960, it was used as a breakdown truck by a local garage for 15 years or so. Following that, it was stored at the garage owner's farm (stripped down) until 2011 when the current owner bought it. It was transported to the current location and has remained stored in the same condition until now. Some work was carried out on the chassis at some point and it is currently primed and ready for paint. The deal will be done this week and the current owner has very kindly offered to let us work on it at his farm so we don't have to transport it piece by piece to our garage which has limited available space. All being well, work will start in a couple of weeks.

Hi Wally, Thanks very much for taking the time to look into that for us. I'm sure it's a long shot, but it's worth looking to see if we can find something. It would be nice to know where it was if we can. Perhaps some clues will come to light as we start stripping and cleaning parts. Rob

Hi folks, New member here. I'm Rob and I've been browsing the forums for a little while and thought it was time to introduce myself. My Dad and I have just finished restoring our 1943 Willys Jeep and we are now in the process of buying a Bedford MWR as our next project. I've been looking at a couple of threads on here and there appears to be a wealth of knowledge and very useful information regarding the MWR. The truck has been off the road for at least 40 years and has been disassembled for most of that time. It is, however, 95% complete and substantially original - all the wood work has survived bar a few small pieces that can be repaired and all of the original fixtures / fittings are there. There is a small plate on the chassis located by the passenger side step from when it had a rebuild that gives us the following information: Chassis Number: WR44502 and a Vehicle Number: 43YR07. With this information, I got in touch with the RLC archive and they provided the following slip with shows it was disposed of at the Central Vehicle Depot Ashchurch in 1960. Can anybody here help us trace the vehicles history any further? We'd love to know more about it's life in service. It's post service life is quite well known to us. We're also looking for a few MWR specific parts - The box that replaces the Drivers side step for the generator and the spare wheel mount to fit the spare wheel on rear. The deal will be done this week and I look forward to documenting the restoration / sharing some photos on here as we go. Kind regards, Rob.