Daimler Dingo - Use by Royal Air Force

[David Molyneux]

Imperial War Museum photo CNA3557 is captioned "Two airmen of 2866 Rifle squadron RAF Regiment celebrate the end of the Italian campaign with a special issue of beer while sitting on top of their Daimler Mark 1 Scout Car".
The photo clearly shows the registration as RAF 90632; the photo is taken at an unusual angle and details of the vehicle are not too apparent but I think it is a Dingo.

Does anybody have any details of the use of these scout cars by the RAF eg numbers, contract or registrations; I am particularly intrigued by the registration which is very close to that of an Otter RAF 90640 also used by the RAF Regt and shown on IWM photo CNA CNA3672.

David Molyneux

[singeager]

Hi

I had the good fortune at a show last year to meet a chap who served with waht he described a 'Squibs' in the RAF.

His job in 44 was to drive dingo out to the front line with another assalt engineer to identify locations for advanced airfields that could be made ready in short order as soon as the front line had moved on.

These would be then utilised by typhoon and tempest aircraft operatring the 'cab rank' air support system.

Sadly he was very informative but was one of those chaps who did not want his name recorded. He did however tell me that he had given a photo collection to the Royal Engineers Museum at Chatham and in have yet to chase up this lead..