Brooky

Preserved Churchill seen at Duxford quite a few years ago

Nearly there...............just the ex Jersey one to go, modern technology!!!

Try again, this time with the pictures (I hope)!!!

Some more pictures of early MW's. I have included the Jersey one as this is now back in the north of England

Sorry if some have been posted before, but then again you can never have too many pictures of early British stuff!!

Austin, welcome, always had a soft spot for K9's. A cargo version was the first lorry I drove (at the tender age of 10!!!)

I live in Preston and can recommend the West Lancs section of the MVT for local meets.

Look forward to seeing you in 2009

www.pearsonsofliverpool.co.uk

Another link for details

Good photos on here

Not very good at reviews!!!

However the book is a landscape A4 production with the photos taken from wartime glass negatives and it tells the story of Pearsons of Liverpool. The pictures in the book are fantastic and cover the whole range of vehicles assembled by the company from kits supplied CKD (completely knocked down) from both America and Canada. These include CMP types, and American vehicles including Autocars, Diamond T and Mack. Trailers and forklifts are also included as are some British vehicles!!The story is completed by a look at the post war activities as suppliers and refurbishers of ex military vehilcles and also their post war coach building activities.

Follows is a synopsis taken from the Transpennine website.

Author: Alan Earnshaw & David Hayward

Format: A4, Hardback

Pages: 148pp

Price: £29.00 UK

December '08 Release!

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When preordering select PRE-ORDER as Shipping Method!

Synopsis: This beautifully illustrated book uses hitherto classified photographs of outstanding quality to present a view of the 'secret' goings-on around Wavertree and Edge Hill. Here, in bombed-out factories and on waste ground around Smithdown Lane, Overbury Street, Crown Street, Queensland Road and Falkner Street, a vast fleet of military vehicles were erected in great secrecy.

The 148-page hard-back book will be produced entirely in black and white, with a sepia tone dust jacket, and is A4 landscape format. It will only have a limited edition of 1,500 UK copies, each of which will be individually numbered and signed by the authors. To reserve your copy for a December release please pre-order now.

Price: £25.00 plus first class post and packaging of £4 to UK addresses (Overseas at cost).

Web site address is

www.transpenninepublishing.co.uk

I dont think you will be disapointed!!!!

For those of you who do not take the magazine Vintage Roadscene, you may be unaware of the newly published book by them. It is a pictorial record of Pearsons of Liverpool war work assembling vehicles from both Canada and America that were supplied CKD.

It is a large landscape format book and made up mainly of photos of their work. These photos were taken during the war and the quality is superb.

Mine arrived this morning and all I can say is FANTASTIC!!!!

(The publishers can be contacted on 017683 51053 but be quick as the production run is limited to 1500 copies)

Please note this is not intended as an advert as I have no connection with the publishers but believe that members of the forum may be interested in it.

 

It doesn´t really matter, as he did not come ashore on D-Day ....

 

Hanno

My point exactly!!!!!!

history distorted

Keep this going folks. History is often blurred out for the sake of lack of knowledge or experience.

 

I quite agree!!!

There are many instances where vehicles are portrayed as something they are not.

My favorite hobby horses are post war vehicles at WW2 events. Who is there to explain to the public that a Land Rover did not carry Patton ashore on D Day.

(Before everybody starts I am equally enthusiastic about war time and post war, but everything in their corrct place)

The second is the number of Austin K2's that are portrayed as WW2 canteen vans when the majority were converted post war for the AFS. Again distorting history.

Perhaps they had as much trouble getting 900x16 tyres as we do!!!!

The film with the Morris Commercial was also shown the other night as part of a programme celebrating 90 years of the RAF

Welcome

Where abouts in the fens did the Explorer come from?

Have you any piccies

Well done

From the info I have managed to get hold of you did very well getting a copy of the book.

I spoke to the publishers to see if they had any record of the author (the book was self published) and they said that all their records had been destroyed in a flood and in any case all the manuscript etc would have been returned after publication. They did say however that the print run would probably have not exceeded a thousand copies and probable much less than that.

It is indeed a fantastic story and really brings to life the story of these two girls in Normandy.

I did the research because I did have a thought that the book should be republished as both a historic account and a social account of that period.

Who knows I may one day continue the search as I am sure that the author lived in my neck of the woods as it was published in Kendal and one quotation goes along the lines of "and for a moment I was back in my native Lancashire" (or something like that"!!!

Enjoy the read and maybe leave it in the clubhouse for someone else to look at!!!!!

Another photo of the K3 this time with its crew

Some photos of Thornycroft Nubian on test

There was a British Purchasing committee in North America during the war and a lot of equipment was paid for. I would be interesting to see a list of what was Lend Lease, and what we actually paid for.

Good question, thought you might like to see the attached letter. It probably asks more questions than it answers!!

ward la france 1.pdf

As you say Steve, the Traffic looks very restorable. The Mack is loveley though. Where is it located?

 

Tim (too)

The Mack is in east Yorkshire at the moment.

Wow. A Bulldog. Not seen one of those for years. Photos please!!!

 

Tim (too)

Kid brother has started a web site, piccies of Mack are there, try following this link

http://rustytrucks.tripod.com/id4.html

Am interested if you have any parts for a 1920's Mack AC (Bulldog) Especially engine parts or solid wheels.

My brother has just imported one from the States, nearly complete but missing bits and pieces

There seem to be a few Austins on the scene at the moment that portray themselves as war time when the chances are they were converted after the war for the NFS.

Just for interest I thought that a picture of a "real" canteen would be of interest.

Attached is a wartime picture of a 3 ton Austin Canteen that was used by the YMCA just after D Day.

The picture came from a book called The Road From Normandy that tells the story of two YMCA volunteers Margaret Chettle and Marjorie Whiteside who landed in Normandy in August 1944 and followed the troops through to VE day.

The book was published privately in November 1946 in Kendal. I have tried to find out more about the author but have drawn a blank, even though she was at the time of publishing an MBE.

A Traffic in action!

 

Steve

That was one of the pictures I was looking for!!!

I still must look for another photo that was taken when it was owned by someone called Smith (I think) in Milton Keynes

I think this truck used to belong to Terry Till in Near Preston in Lancashire? Nice looking motor, sat on milweb for some time I recall

kind regards

nick

It did indeed.

I bought it from Terry and rallied it for a couple of years, it was a nice motor but not very practical, especially given the rain we experience in Lancashire!!