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Was it around 1938 , when MCC got into the 4X4 market , with quad prototypes
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Do get hold of VINTAGE ROADSCENE
http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/ca..._roadscene.htm
As there is a photo of what I believe is the Morris-Commercial Q Quad prototype or one of them, from 1937. The answer was, from Bart's writings in W&T, that a rep from MCC toured the Continent and brought back or had sent back, Tatra, Steyr-Daimler-Puch et al multi-drive vehicles. This from a company producing numerous variants of 6x4 bogied vehicles! I am sure that the Continental orders played a big part in the development story as by 1936 GMC in Pontiac were offering a 4x4 Chevrolet-based GMC for the Dutch, Belgian and US Armies.
If you read the Reports up to 1937 it is clear that despite the new 4x4 and even 6x6 vehicles, with 8x8 having been tried out by 1932 say, the WD favoured 4x2 and 6x4 drive. Some of the Generals in probably the Woolwich Arsenal woke up...and there seems to have been a cull of old Generals at the top by 1938 so perhaps that played a part? Would I be correct in saying that the old cavalrymen had gone, to be replaced by those who had been used to motorisation as by then the Cavalry Portee was well established?