English truck ID please.

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Came across this pic supposedly of a Humber One ton at the AWM, is it actually a Morris FV16101 ?

http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cas_disp_...s_level=Public

again in this one

http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cas_disp_...s_level=Public

A Private J Hedges gets a credit in both shots. wonder if there is a connection?

Pics are copyrighted, so hope the links work
Rich

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Same truck in these 2 as well

http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cas_disp_...s_level=Public

http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cas_disp_...s_level=Public

Rich

[cliff]

Richard I suggest you download and post all 4 photos here as the links do not work.

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Thanks Cliff, trying again.

Pic1
ID Number: HOB/56/0242/MC
Date made: January 1956
Members of Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) packing ammunition and stores into a Humber one ton truck (57 84 BF 68), in preparation for their move deep into the jungle of Southern Kedah. There they will make base camps for operations against the Communist terrorists. The soldiers have been patrolling the jungle vigorously for almost two weeks. Identified is Private Jack Hedges of Cessnock, NSW (left).
Copyright: AWM copyright
Copyright holder: AWM copyright

Pic2
ID Number: HOB/56/0243/MC
Date made: January 1956
Private (Pte) Jack Hedges, of Cessnock, NSW (left), passes up three inch mortar rounds to 2/8804 Pte Jim Head, of Dee Why, NSW (right), as they load a Humber one ton truck (57 84 BF 68), in preparation for their move deep into the jungle of Southern Kedah. There they will make base camps for operations against the Communist terrorists. The soldiers have been patrolling the jungle vigorously for almost two weeks.
Copyright: AWM copyright
Copyright holder: AWM copyright

Pic3
ID Number: HOB/56/0253/MC
Place made: Malaya: Kedah
Date made: January 1956
Men of A Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), gather together in small groups for a chat in a rubber plantation after being separated to search heavy jungle in pursuit of Communist terrorists in Southern Kedah. There are some Number 5, Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), jungle carbines leaning against the closest rubber tree. The vehicle in the centre is a Humber one ton truck and the vehicle to the right is a GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton truck. There is also a Number 4 Jeep trailer attached to a Jeep at the extreme left.
Copyright: AWM copyright
Copyright holder: AWM copyright

Pic4
ID Number: HOB/56/0273/MC
Maker: Hobson, Phillip Oliver
Place made: Malaya: Kedah
Troops of Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), sitting in the back of a GMC, CCKW-353 two and a half ton truck move through a barbed wire perimeter fence to a new jungle site. To the left is a Humber one ton truck carrying more troops and supplies.
Copyright: AWM copyright
Copyright holder: AWM copyright

Rich

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith

Pic1
ID Number: HOB/56/0242/MC
Date made: January 1956
Members of Support Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) packing ammunition and stores into a Humber one ton truck (57 84 BF 68),

Hi Rich,

I am 99% certain that the truck in Pics 1 and 2 is a Morris Commercial MRA1, as you say. The picture is really too small to get detail from, but going on the registration letters, BF fits with a Morris, the Humber used later letter groups.

regards, Richard

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Thanks Richard,
Most dissapointed to find that the only listed Humber photos in the Australian war museum are in fact a Morris.
Finding it very difficult to get any info at all on the Aussy Humbers, but will keep digging.
Rich