Hi Guys
Just to bring this one back to the top, the restoration is underway. Having sanded the tin work on the windshield I have uncovered the Royal Signals blue and white square with what appears to be 67 in red letters superimposed, on the other side there is the start of a red background but I have not been able to identify a divisional marking. This result is interesting to me as my father was in a signals section in the Black Cats which had a red background, so fingers crossed, could there be a cat under the paint? How scary would that be?
I have already had one strange coincidence with Ebay. On his return from the war he had brought home a copy of "The Two Types" (a send up cartoon book about British officers in North Africa, and a later edition for Italy). My wife spotted a pair of hand painted wooden cut outs of the cartoon duo, she bid, and won them. When they arrived painted on the back of one of them was written Souvenir Leghorn Italy 1945 and on the other "to L/C Young from paintshop", his name was Young and he was a L/C and he had been to Leghorn. He had often said that many souvenirs including his collection of propaganda leaflets were lost when a weapons carrier fell of a hillside road in Italy. Maybe all just a coincidence or.....?
I will get some pictures of the project on in due course
regards
John