Identify these Mv's ?

[tyler]

Hi, can anyone help me identify these WW2 trucks, their all wartime shots of a friends father and fathers cousin.

 

Is it a Morris something?

Notice Micky mouse camo pattern on grill, the father fought in Italy/Casino.

 

Written on back of photo above "Our Rolls Royce, Smudgar (friend leaning against truck) & Me (sitting in truck), March 1945, Forlie Italy"

 

 

No date

Is it a Austin K3 GS?

 

 

December 24th 1942:

Is it a CMP of some kind?

 

 

Thanks.

 

Tyler.

[tyler]

Hi, notice the battle dress blouse over the steering wheel on the Austin type vehicle, could that be there to stop the wheel getting too hot and causing the driver annoyance, also noticethe CMP type vehicle has an expansion tank fitted.

 

Tyler.

[Rlangham]

First appears to be a Morris 8cwt, cargo bed looks too small for a 15 cwt, second is an Austin K6 and third is a CMP with either number 11 or 12 cab

[tyler]

Hi Rlangham, thanks for that, I took a guess at the Austin as I couldn't find me book.

 

Thanks.

 

Tyler.

[Larry]

The CMP in the photo has a number 12 Cab as it has a split in the radiator grill, where the hood comes up. The earlier model 11 Cab had only hatches for access which limited access, hence the improvement.

 

The Light Aid Detachment (LAD) Austin K6 carries the serial 87 which could be 'HQ 2nd Infantry Bde' in a British Infantry Div in Italy. As an LAD vehicle I would have thought it would have had a Breakdown Gantry fitted and yet there is no framework for the pig iron weights around the radiator, used to balance out the load being lifted at the rear. So I guess it's a GS body which looks to be steel and not wood.

 

The Morris Commercial is a CS8 15 cwt truck and is very interesting as it is a very early model of this common type and dates from c.1936. Look at the style of the bonnet and the flat sided front mud guards compared to a bog standard CS8 of 1940s! It would originally have had two aero screens so its understandable that for Italian winters it got a much modified windscreen, taken from something else. Quite a few prewar trucks were used by the British Army in Italy, such as the Morris Commercial CDF 6x4. Sadly for the men in Italy they were always second best for kit compared to the Divisions in NW Europe. This CS8 may have started out in Egypt prewar so it has seen some use!

[Richard Farrant]

The Light Aid Detachment (LAD) Austin K6 carries the serial 87 which could be 'HQ 2nd Infantry Bde' in a British Infantry Div in Italy. As an LAD vehicle I would have thought it would have had a Breakdown Gantry fitted and yet there is no framework for the pig iron weights around the radiator, used to balance out the load being lifted at the rear. So I guess it's a GS body which looks to be steel and not wood.

 

 

 

Larry,

 

The K6 is a GS body and it was rather unusual in that the body came right up to the back of the cab with a locker for the spare wheel within it. The K6 Breakdown Gantry was not produced until Feb. 1944, so unlikely that any K6 Gantry models would have been in Italy. LAD had GS vehicles to transport workshop tools, equipment, and so on.

 

The bridge plate number is rather high at 12 tons, the heaviest K6 was the Coles crane at 9 3/4 tons all up.

 

I have looked after a friend's K6 Gantry for a few years, so am familiar with them, he also had a K6 Coles crane, this has now gone to Duxford museum.

 

Richard