Where is it now?
 

NAAFI van in Toronto

http://server1.minisisinc.com/minisa...14/3714?RECORD

Re: Where is it now?
 

YMCA actually, most probably came over to UK with Canadian forces and then returned home.

Richard

Re: Where is it now?
 

The link didn't work for me, so I searched for "NAAFI van in Toronto", found the picture and copied the details below. Seems Richard is right, the picture was taken in 1947 and it looks like this pre-war truck ended its days in a Toronto scrapyard.

http://server1.minisisinc.com/WEBIMAGES/I0004540.jpg
Digital Image Number: I0004540.jpg
Title: Iron Duke - Battle of Britain, NAAFI (Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes) van in Toronto
Date: February 1947
Place: Toronto (Ont.)
Creator: Gilbert A. Milne
Format: Black and white negative
Reference Code: C 3
Item Reference Code: 9508-8200.2
Subject: MILITARY VEHICLES, Trucks, Military organizations

Where is it now? (2)

http://server1.minisisinc.com/WEBIMAGES/I0004542.jpg
Digital Image Number: I0004542.jpg
Title: People on a motorized sled, Port Arthur, Ontario
Date: February 1947
Place: Port Arthur (Ont.)
Creator: Gilbert A. Milne
Format: Black and white negative
Reference Code: C 3
Item Reference Code: 9508-8232.1
Subject: SLEDS AND SLEIGHS, Winter, Streets

Re: Where is it now?
 

Clive;

I wonder where they all are now? The four pictures below were all taken in the United Kingdom through the course of 1940 and appeared in "CANADA'S WEEKLY" (No. 3011, Vol. CXVI), Firday, December 20, 1940.

Pictures:

# 1: Canadian Knights of Columbus Tea Car
# 2: Canadian Salvation Army Tea Car
# 3: Canadian Legion Tea Car
# 4: Canadian YMCA Tea Car

There not very good pictures. Cheers :)

'40 Ford
 

I have a printed photo from a wartime Ford of Canada magazine of a 1940 Ford with house-type teabar body, donated by Canadian civilians apparently.

Tea wagons, et al
 

There are a surprisingly large number of images at Nat'l Archives showing these Auxiliary Services vans in operation. One sticks in my mind as it was presented by the Toronto Press Club (plaque attached to vehicle) and was first used serving tea and biscuits to the London Press Gallery's Home Guard unit.
There are others but also, in the same vein, several CMP dental labs were presented by the Canadian Dentist's Association, etc...
Canada authorised four Auxiliary Services and you have named all of them; viz, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus, Canadian Legion and YMCA. In the beginning each group tried to be all things to all soldiers but finally CMHQ waded in to stop the bickering and duplication and each Auxiliary became expert in a specific domain. I don't remember off-hand who was who but some provided comforts, others the tea wagons, others hostelries and others...? I'll look it up.

Too Late
 

Hi there (you too Clive)

Army Auxilliary Serivices

YMCA: responsible for organizing sporting events and supplying sporting equipment
-put on sports events and field days
-rented ice rinks and organized hockey league
Legion: supplied entertainment in the form of concert parties
-picked up talented performers from among the troops and organized ?The Army Show?
-also worked with ENSA
Salvation Army: supplied movies
-in the Canadian Army along they ran 500 projectors showing 2-3 shows a day, with 2 changes a week
-latests Canadian and Hollywood movies
Knights of Columbus: responsible for ?hospitallity?
-ran hotels and leave centers
-organized ?hospitality leave? where a soldier was billeted with a local family
-at the London central office, the K of C had 70,000 families in the UK looking for guests