It is indeed a Chev Portee (with 42 Cab, not 12 Cab), but I think it is not yet converted, it looks like it is still a 2Pdr Portee (H class was used in the original Portee configuration and also for a 17Pdr Tractor, but they switched to L class when converted to GS). The conversion to either 17Pdr Tractor or GS involved moving the fuel tanks from behind the cab back wall to alongside the chassis.
This truck on the book cover (although well equipped with other accessories like a signal wire cable reel and a vice on the front bumper), still has one of the hand winch crank handles on the side of the cab. Neither the 17Pdr Tractor or the GS conversions retained the hand winch on the rear body, which was used to load the 2Pdr up onto the rear deck. It looks like a embarkation stencil on the windscreen and an ETO air recognition roundel on the bonnet, so evidence of a Portee in Europe in 1944, and it still only has one single blackout headlamp!
Great photo!
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Last edited by Tony Smith; 18-02-19 at 01:44.
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