Can you identify RAF ambulance in the picture taken in Hong Kong 1954

[geraint llewelyn]

 Can you ID the type of RAF Ambulance and age , picture taken 1954 Hong Kong, RAFP Auxillary .

[Nick Johns]

1940's Austin K2 Ambulance, same model as in the famous film Ice cold in Alex

[geraint llewelyn]

Thanks Nick , is it at all  possible to get date of registration from the licence plate ? 

[wally dugan]

The  registration number  will not tell you the year of manufacture  this style of numbering came into use in 1949 on all military vehicles. If you want to know when it was made you may get that from the RAF MUSEUM at HENDON if they have a card of it's history/record

Edited December 29, 2020 by wally dugan

[Noel7]

To amplify the previous response a little, the army allocated separate number series for vehicles in existence when the 1949 series started and those ordered thereafter. The RAF did not; it allocated the second letter [the first was always A until much later] dependent on the purpose of the vehicle. The very low number suggests the vehicle was in existence before 1949; in fact, so far as I know, the K2 ambulance was not produced after 1945.

[geraint llewelyn]

Many thanks

 

[geraint llewelyn]

 

Samuel Bowen Llewelyn ( dad )  in Chindit bush hat, was in RAF Police this is India 1945-47, I noticed A =RAF,  any info  you can glean on the truck ?