Yes you could see we were well aware of trouble brewing. Despite what some were saying we were developing MT through those times. One thing was the 6 wheeled lorry chassis mentioned. This would relate to the WD rear axle bogie design, from the late 20's, this was used on a number of makes, inc. Leyland, Karrier, Guy, AEC, Albion, Crossley, Thornycroft and later, Austin. Thornycroft were still using that design on the small Nubian crash tender built in the 60's.