Further to the excellent threads started by Les Freathy, here's a suggestion for a new subject: ex-military WW2 vehicles used as fairground transport. It seems especially in the UK a large number of them were used for many years after the war - military vehicle preservation
avant la lettre?
To start off, a FWD SU-COE in the late 1950s. Pic (
source) is captioned "G. Cornfield, F. Richardson and R. Newbold in front of J.P. Collins' FWD Sucoe tractor MRE997."