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Early October 1941 - Brothers-in-arms, Australian Army, 19 Brigade, 2/1 Anti-Tank Regiment gun team with 2 pound 'portee' A/T gun on the road to Haifa, during the move to Ras Baalbek Camp, Syria (now Lebanon) Photograph - 1941

Hi Can somebody I.D. this antenna base. It has the British W.D. arrow . The cup is brass. Could it be part of Base No.1 - Or a ground antenna base for the 34ft mast ?

Another Australian CS8 wreck. This is one I saved from the scrap metal dealer and am currently working on.

Another survivor, this one was from Norway ... this appears to be a C4 with the slightly longer wheelbase. Pics were taken around 20 years ago. Where is it now ? And another C4 in the Danish army post-war.

Hi Ron, Yes that PU8/4 is now in good hands .. what a rare survivor it is. I found these old pics from the mid 1980s. . CS8 wrecks in Australia. I have more pics but maybe too many ! Mulwala is a town in N.S.W and BFB=Bush Fire Brigade. The faded red CS8 is another ex-fire brigade truck.

This may or may not help you. This is a 6 cyl. CS8 engine showing the throttle setup.

A rebore operation for a Morris 6 engine, it is likely this engine came out of a CS8 , PU or maybe a CDSW . Just a word of caution : in this pic the water jacket side cover is visible. The jacket cover on these engines is fixed with 6mm bolts... there are 32 of the little buggers. The bolts need to be removed with extreme caution, they can and often do snap off . Drilling out of the broken off bolts requires high accuracy drilling , and then heli-coils may be needed. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205498416

IMHO The LR wins this trial https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060035155 Another trial in tropical Australia with a Champ https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060035161

IMHO The LR wins this trial https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060035155 Another trial in tropical Australia https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060035161

Links to IWM pics https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205490058 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205470335 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205205051 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205204967 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205041241

IWM pics. Interesting engine stand for the Morris 6 engine.. looks like it enables rotation of the engine for assembly.

Very nice work, the panels are very neat . I like the colour you got matched for the Humber project. Yes those older spray guns just keep on working, I bought a few of the Super Cheap Auto gravity type guns , they seem to perform OK.. we are not restoring to concours d'elegance standards.

The 'boss' Lord Nuffield came out to Aust. late 1944 and he toured around for a few months. Here he is seen inspecting a early production Morris CS8 truck that has been disposed out of service and sold to a farmer in N.S.W. By late 1944 the British W.D. 15 cwt trucks held in vehicle parks were declared obsolete and some were offered to civilians for essential use i.e farms and bush fire brigades. The Aust. army had thousands of Canadian CMP and U.S. 4X4 and 6X6 types and the 'odd ball' 4X2 vehicles were beginning to be sold off well before the war had ended. The W.D. trucks were sold through normal civilian trade outlets . Lanes Motors in Melbourne were the Nuffield agency , during mid 1945 they were selling CS8 and PU trucks though their sub agencies throughout Victoria. A elderly chap from Whittlesea who rang me recalled as a 15 year old, his father purchased a CS8 from the local Morris dealership, the truck was put to work and it towed a horse float to Sydney and back twice...... they had trouble registering the truck as it came without a spare wheel.. no problem, they went back to the Morris dealer and another CS8 was stripped down for spares . I was offered the rear axle from this donor as it was still on the farm. The CS8 was traded in for a new Land Rover in 1952. Lanes Motors applied a coat of cheap grey coloured paint over the army livery and my PU still has some of the grey in small mottled patches.

The battle for Hong Kong. A line up of abandoned Morris-Commercial vehicles, the last in line is a CS8 water truck. https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/data.php?show=item&id=UN00018

Not much to report other than I found this interesting pic of a CS8 undergoing a re-spray job. This CS8 GS body has been modified and fitted with what looks like metal body panels. The text describing the pic has the truck described as a PU which it aint. Was this a factory prototype ? Pic was found in this magazine https://morrisregister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Morris-Monthly-February-2020.pdf