[gordon]

Elsewhere in Europe vehicle production industries were trashed, so people were happy to use and re-use WW2 stuff.

I've had the impression for a while that the UK Govenment was keen to get vehicle manufacture restarted within the UK, and so limited numbers of vehicles were re-conditioned for the UK forces. I know a lot of vehicles were rebuilt for sale and for export, but don't know of big rebuild programmes for vehicles sourced outside the UK.

OK, fair cop, two exceptions;

1. My MH-Ford was reconditioned by the Ministry of Supply, but that's hardly a big-quantity item.

2. DUKWs were so obviously the correct tool for the job that they got production-line rebuilds somewhere in the NW of England up till not long before they got surplussed, in fact the marines still have a few.

... but apart from that.

Gordon