Morris C8 Posted November 26, 2010 Share Posted November 26, 2010 (edited) I bought this 1947 Auction army vehicle sale catalogue last week and the info on what went for sale just after the war. nice to see the service reg numbers that they had during the war. There are 2,523 vehicles for sale in the catalogue from bikes to bren carriers ect. This catalouge has 79 pages and one Austin 10 Saloon car went for £30. Good for research. Has any one made a list of all the ww2 vehicles sale catalogues. On the bike page there is a Levis motor bike for sale, Levis motor bikes were made from 1911 untill 1940. Edited November 27, 2010 by Morris C8 more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted November 26, 2010 Author Share Posted November 26, 2010 One more sale catalougue from Bordon April 1947, most of the pages have Jeeps and Bren carries for sale, what other parts of the UK did they sale military vehicles from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 Tyres and Tank engines, matchetts, 2,000 Oil cans, 400 Driving mirrors. just think what 900 x 16 tyres would cost now , then 5 @ £9. Now up to £200 each. Are there any photos of these veh sales, i have seen some of motor bikes but not many of trucks ect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 (edited) One more sale catalougue from Bordon April 1947, most of the pages have Jeeps and Bren carries for sale, what other parts of the UK did they sale military vehicles from. Interesting, thanks for posting, my father and his brother went to a sale near Oxford in 1947 to buy a Jeep but they all made lots of money, uncle bought a DUKW it had a fuel problem they had to tow it home behind his Dodge command car Edited November 27, 2010 by Nick Johns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 (edited) Those were the days 'Without Reserve' The only time you see that now is bankruptcy or Baillif sales. Give an idea of prices though, Ron who owns our yard tells me he bought a three ton Dodge from auction for £300, worked it into the floor , no hours then, if you could get the fuel to haul a load you were in the money (Knowing Ron as he is now, wouldn't even want to ask about how he got fuel). He eventually sold it for £400 and bought his first house. Edited November 27, 2010 by Tony B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79x100 Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Most of the motorcycles seem to have civilian registration numbers so were presumably from non-WD government departments. The Levis in particular must have been civilian impressed. Are there any motorcycles in the Bordon catalogue ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspool Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Great to see those old catalogs - thanks for sharing them! just think what 900 x 16 tyres would cost now , then 5 @ £9. Now up to £200 each. I found an online calculator at http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/. This is the result: Current data is only available till 2008. In 2008, £9 0s 0d from 1947 is worth£263.00 using the retail price index £815.00 using average earnings Another comparison for the Dodge Tony's uncle bought: Current data is only available till 2008. In 2008, £300 0s 0d from 1947 is worth£8,760.00 using the retail price index £27,200.00 using average earnings So vehicles were not really cheap in those days - remember demand was much higher than supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radek Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hi, could I ask if this No. what I have found on the rear of my Austin k30 is the park No.? This lorry came to the Czechoslovak Rep. in UNRRA help at 1947. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 Most of the motorcycles seem to have civilian registration numbers so were presumably from non-WD government departments. The Levis in particular must have been civilian impressed. Are there any motorcycles in the Bordon catalogue ? Hi, there are no motorcycles in the Bordon catalogue but over 500 Bren Carriers and over 150 Jeeps in it. There are over 550 motorcycles in the Kirmington catalogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hi Radek, The park serial numbers do not go that high. There are a few Austin 10 hp utility Austin 10 hp saloon and Austin 8 hp Touring cars + a few Austin Ambulance , Austin GS trucks 30 cwt and 3 ton, Austin crew carrier, Austin workshop lorry, in the sale. Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted November 28, 2010 Author Share Posted November 28, 2010 There are a few more bike service reg numbers more military on this page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 One more sale catalougue from Bordon April 1947, most of the pages have Jeeps and Bren carries for sale, what other parts of the UK did they sale military vehicles from. This pic appeared on the G503 showing the Jeeps for sale at Bordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Besides Kirmington and Bordon the Ministry of Supply were selling vehicles in 1947 from - Royal Ordnance Factory, Kempston Hardwick, Elstow, Near Bedford. Storage Depot, Mount Farm Aerodrome, Dorchester, Oxfordshire. Storage Depot, Ripple Road, Barking, Essex. Storage Depot, Byram Hall, Near Pontefract, Yorkshire. Storage Depot, Winterslow, Near Salisbury. I think these were a mixture of military and civilian registered vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afasey Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 [h=2] BORDON SALE 1947[/h] I was particularly interested in your posting re Military Vehicle Sale Catalogues April 1947 Lots 1035-2151 at Bordon. I attended this sale and purchased a GWP slatfront Ford Jeep for £150, which I kept for 3 years as my sole means of transport. This was following my de-mob from the Navy. I wish I had it now ! To the best of my recollection they were selling about 600 jeeps,many of them in lots of 2 and 6. If you have the remaining pages of this catalogue I would love to have a copy, particularly the section covering Jeeps; I note your interest in Humber staff cars. I drove one of these in Singapore for a while.<Regards <BR>Tony (new member afasey) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Were these type of sales popular back then, as they wern't really collectables would it have just been landowners or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Ashby Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 Interesting, thanks for posting, my father and his brother went to a sale near Oxford in 1947 to buy a Jeep but they all made lots of money, uncle bought a DUKW it had a fuel problem they had to tow it home behind his Dodge command car Nick that was possibly at Mount Farm ex 9th USAAF photo recon airfield near to Benson about 8miles south of Oxford? Large amounts of war surplus kit was sold off there my Farther and uncle also went to buy a van about the same time but found the prices too high for them. I think you'll find that a fair bit of the early kit that was in Raymond Mains yard came from the Mount Farm sales. I know Anthony Main has a number of the original catalogues. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Besides Kirmington and Bordon the Ministry of Supply were selling vehicles in 1947 from - Royal Ordnance Factory, Kempston Hardwick, Elstow, Near Bedford. Storage Depot, Mount Farm Aerodrome, Dorchester, Oxfordshire. Storage Depot, Ripple Road, Barking, Essex. Storage Depot, Byram Hall, Near Pontefract, Yorkshire. Storage Depot, Winterslow, Near Salisbury. To the above list should be added Great Missenden Depot, Buckinghamshire in May 1946. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardsman1036 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Hi all, Have loved reading this thread and looking at the old auction documents, I am custodian of a Nov 43 Ford GPW British Canadian jeep with an orginal service number 4242373 [CM] First Registered December 1946 in England ..................the previous owner and I are confident she was a ambulance jeep from evidence on the tub [tubes & holes for carrying the steel stretcher 'frame' together with a central hole in the bonnet for the red cross pole ...etc. Looking through the auction catologues & photos there are some CM numbered jeeps together with service numbers very close to mine.............boy would it be great if someone found her on an auction list ! Regards karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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