Rick W Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Some more, not strictly Normandy though! Anyone id the trucks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Looks like Morris Commercial 15cwt leading an Austin K5 gs, heading left in pic. Heading right, what looks to be a Bedford MW in front of a truck I cannot id. Great Pic's . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 I was wondering if that might be a Ford rather than a Morris. If it is a Morris, its the first pic of one Ive seen in ETO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Yes Rik, looks like a Ford WOT2, could the truck at right be a GMC353, nothing specific to base this on , just the general outline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Might have been Wynford Vaughan-Thomas of the BBC MB Long time since I've watched it but I'm pretty sure he was press rather than BBC, Mail or Express,...... Alan Moorehead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Yes Rik, looks like a Ford WOT2, could the truck at right be a GMC353, nothing specific to base this on , just the general outline. I wondered about GMC,.......but the two wheel drive version that was suppose to have been supplied to the French, ......but the Brits got them instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 The Ex- French contract vehicles were supplied as both 4x2 and 4x4, ACX504 and ACK353 respectively and the 6x6 ACKWX353 forerunner to the CCKW353. Perhaps one of these might fit with the photo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 Arnhem. Bayeux Caen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Great pic of a K5 Austin, in Bayeux photo. Cheers Rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 The vehicle in front? Isnt it an AEC? Shame there isnt a decent pic of the plate or any unit markings. Any idea what the cable/rope is thats runing up the windscreen to the roof? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 The vehicle in front? Isnt it an AEC? Shame there isnt a decent pic of the plate or any unit markings. Any idea what the cable/rope is thats runing up the windscreen to the roof? Don't think its AEC, (well matador, anyways,) due to windscreen type. (Mat had divided vertical and horizontal type). pic seems to show vehicle with vertical division, a-la bedford QL and Austin k5; - don't think its a Bedford due to thickness of division looking much too much, hence my thoughts re K5. I'm guessing the 'rope', leading up from front is a tow rope,......just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Looks like an Austin K5 to me, usually known as 'the screamer' due to transmission noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted May 21, 2008 Author Share Posted May 21, 2008 More pics from the Caen area... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 These are British Official pix, meaning they were taken by military photographers in the field. Looking at the reverse sides - We have similar images in one of our collections at sunny Murdoch Towers and I am almost certain, thanks to the chinagraph underlining shown, some of these prints form part of the collection which was junked the News of the World when Murdoch acquired it. Great swathes of newspaper library pictures have been sold off and abandoned down the years, so there are no comebacks. The Daily Mirror and Daily Express in London and Manchester have all done terrible deeds to pix archives - even quite recently. Terrible. However, we continue to seek material belonging to the Times and News of the World which were lost (if I told you why I'd have to shoot several retired gentlemen) in 1986 during the unseemly rush from Fleet Street to Waplitz. The whole Times "uncensored" war pix archive was inadvertently left on the roof of the Times building in Grays Inn Rd (where it resided in an outhouse) when the Times moved out. The "famous" News of The World Crypt (which housed pix and documents going back centuries) was left in Bouverie Street and lost. By telling you this I don't expect anyone to tell me! I've got enough to look at (today it is The Sun bus in Moscow with page 3 girls........) MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Pic showing Morris light Recce car at Bretteville 1944 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Operation Goodwood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanedu14 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 One to go up d' old post. Very beautiful photograph of the area of my city. Living in a sector or there was of the English, Norwegian combatant and Canadian the sector of St contest in the north of CAEN, c' is very pleasant to see photographs memories of these combatants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 A few more Bits in Normandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Can anyone identify the twin weapons and mount in the jeep? behind Monty Noel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I'm not so sure those are on the jeep , they look a bit like 20mm Oerliken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Possibly Hispano 20mm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeathJr Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 They could be Vickers K's or Brens with the drum AA mags. Any 20mm mounted on a jeep seems a bit OTT even for Monty. Could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 The mags look more like the Bee Hive shape of Hispano's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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