hi all,after spending a huge amount of time reserching the strange history of my austin 10 staff car the picture is now complete. Most of the information has come from the austin 10 owners club,richard beddall of the mvt,rlc deepcut and the heritage center at gaydon. The car was built on 19th july 1939 as a standard civvy vehicle at longbridge, it was sent to a dealership in bristol and was registerd GHU127,the car was not sold and was reterned to longdridge after war broke out. At the factory the car was turned into what they called a specification vehicle,this means the vehicle was militarised so it was clear to everyone on the build lines the level of trim, colour,tyres etc that the mos determined. The car stayed at longbridge until 21st august 1944 and on longer needed it was worked into an order for 1800 cars and was isued a service number being M5881250 under contract number 57442. Longbridge had a habit of taking photos of there spec vehicles and this explains the factory picture in barts book with the old austin works in the background. In 1946 the car was demobed and sold to a dealer in gloustershire,it was turned back into a black and chrome saloon car,the dealer went to register it only to find it allready had a 1939 number being GHU127. The car was sold to a farmer in chew valley in 1946. The finished car was at the mvt show lacock at war this august. I hope this makes sence to everone cheers, neil.