[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Neil, excellent work! However I am clearly psychic as I was thinking about going down to Bovington from here and checking out the CMP record cards in due course by appointment with David Fletcher at possibly the same time as you posted! I am currently editing my book and I need to find time...I have been trying to work on pre-war British development of WD trucks and the record cards are very helpful.

May I suggest that if any Mid-east vehicles were sent to Italy with the 8th Army, etc., then they would have ended up in a dump at war's end if they survived and were then sold from there or were then shipped back to the UK for disposal: for sale to British companies that refurbished them for onward sale or for friendly governments.