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Originally posted by Larry Hayward
Recently the Royal Artillery 'Firepower' Museum in Woolwich SE London put on show a Chevrolet CGT that has been restored to running order,
However I can't help thinking that the desert scheme they have adopted for this vehicle is inaccurate in that I have never seen a Chev CGT (or Ford version) with Number 13 style cab in the desert.
it surely would have looked better if the RA Museum had used a NW Europe colour scheme.
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Larry,
About 11 years ago, this Chev CGT arrived at the REME workshops where I worked. It was undertaken as an apprentice project. Details on it are not neccessarily authentic, but the aim was to get it in running order. As an enthusiast on all things old and green, I was asked about colour and markings at the time and it was finished in Olive Drab. It then resided at the Rotunda museum in the open for some years, until the Firepower museum opened, then for some reason it was repainted in desert colour. It may of course have been done to depict post war use in Egypt area.
Richard