RAF vehicles

[cletrac (RIP)]

Oh those spelling mistakes! I don't know how I got a c instead of an r when they're so far apart on the keyboard.

[Les Freathy]

evening guys

Afraid i dont get to much spare time at the moment hence the lack of photos from my stable, so whilst i have an hour here are a few more R.A.F shots


1. Commer Q2 tractor/ Queen mary trailer cut short at the rear, this conversion i believe was for use as a laboratory or for mobile office use
raf 1.jpg


2. Same type of tractor this time with a flat bodied semi trailer,these trailers were previously used on Albion AM463 tractors
raf 2.jpg


3. Austin K6 6x4 3ton CO2 fire crash tender
raf 3.jpg

[Les Freathy]

This ambulance appeared at a London to Brighton run many years ago an certainly caused a stir due to it being so rare, at about the same time a friend of mine on the Marsh was also restoring a GS tender version unfortunatly he fitted a wooden civilian type body. Prehaps the thought of trying to reproduce those pressed body panels was to daunting

[Les Freathy]

This Austin K6 restored signals van turned up at Duxford a few years ago, i am still not sure if forms part of the collection at the museum but i do not recall seeing it at any rallies since i took these photos

[Nick Balmer]

Hello Les,

Is that...

"1. Commer Q2 tractor/ Queen mary trailer cut short at the rear, this conversion i believe was for use as a laboratory or for mobile office use "

what was known as a Bombay Bus. Many low loaders and flatbeds were coverted over the years for use at RAF bases, and on construction sites in the Middle East into what was known as a Bombay Bus.

Some were double deckers.

Regards

Nick Balmer

[Rlangham]

I was very kindly sent a copy of the RAF fire manual from 1949 the other day, it includes some photos of fire vehicles, turns out the Austin co2 cylinder tender didn't come into use until post-WW2, contrary to what I thought before! Attached is a photo of a Crossley Q type 4x4 foam tender preserved at the RAF Museum, Cosford, where I went to today

[Rlangham]

Also at the museum is this Mobile Dentistry Unit on a Fordson WOT chasiss. Although the front end looks like that of a WOT1, and has the chassis of one, the cab looks like that of a WOT6, i've seen a couple of photos of Fordson's like this, I think they were designated as WOT6's. Apologies for the bad photo, it's not exactly in a good position to be photographed!

[Paul Bellamy]

The IWM photo's earlier in this thread are from a series of 19 taken of the 92nd Bomb Group, USAAF, at RAF Alconbury in mid-late June 1943, called "BRITISH EQUIPMENT AT AN AMERICAN AIRFIELD: ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1943"

Not all feature ex-RAF vehicles, but from those that do:

D 15110: Oxygen filling trailer.
D 15116: K2A Ambulance and Crash Tender.
D 15118: Closeup of Crash Tender nco.
D 15124: Crash Tender in use.
D 15130: Fuel Bowser and Airspeed Oxford DF399.
D 15135: Chance Light trailer.

Incidentally, the turretless B-17 in the photos is B-17-E 41-9154, by that time being used as a general "hack" and crew training aircraft in the UK only.
Airspeed Oxford DF399 was only with the 92nd BG between June 8th and August 27th 1943, so thaty dated the photo's fairly accurately.

Hope that helps, and it's a good series of photo's to look at, as most of the other equipment being used (dinghys, parachutes, bikes, shotguns etc.) is RAF kit too.

[Les Freathy]

Time to revive this lost thread, a couple of Austin K6 trucks the first in service in the early days of Heathrow Airport. The K6 carries a aircraft height finder

2nd, one the many K6 tipper versions used by airfield construction companies, this one in early post war blue/grey and black

les

[Jan Mostek]

The RAF vehicles are very interesting topics. Here are several views of Mack NR6 used for tranpostation purposes in Noth Africa.

RAF Mack NR6, picture 2

RAF Mack NR6, pict. 3

Mack NR6 and Gloster Gladiator, both RAF.

Happy searching, Jan.

[Jan Mostek]

And one more interesting vehicle, 1938 Chevy Stake Truck, just for the case some of the users would not be completely familiar with Wheels and Tracks magazines.

Note the licence plate, it seems to me that is was added later on the photo. Your comments? And what you guys guess about the vehicle color? I would like it RAF Blue but some sort of olive would be more likely. Any comments?

Happy searching, Jan.

[Les Freathy]

A few more items for the R.A.F
1. Ford WOA2 heavy utility

[Les Freathy]

Many of the specialist bodies fitted to WW2 chassis were in the late1940/early1950s transferred to more modern chassis to give a new lease of life and obviously to keep cost down at a time when almost all items transport were made for export. These two photos show a body from a Ford WOT 1 6x4 mounted on the post war Fordson Thames the location shows this one up for auction around 1960. For those who like to model in 1/76 scale you can do no better than to utilize the Austin K6 from the Airfix RAF emergency set,the wheels are i suppose just passable but i never did think they looked right so produced and cast my own, the chassis and running gear is easy to adapt. An excellent resin cab is available from Transport images whose range is mainly civilian but includes some items useful to the military vehicle modeller a S.A.E to 17 Foxdene road, Seasalter, Whitstable, Kent CT5 4QY England will bring you details and prices

[Les Freathy]

A further version on the Austin K6 6x4 chassis this one is the expandable office body, these were often linked to form large operation units

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The Chrevrolet RAF truck would have been assembled and supplied by General Motors Near East Ltd in Alexandria. GMNE supplied to my knowledge:

RAF
BRITISH ARMY (War Department)
EGYPTIAN ARMY
TRANS-JORDANIAN FRONTIER FORCE

[Jan Mostek]

I guess the Great War is the great theme also for the softskines. here is one RAF Leyland with factory fresh Bristol Fighter. The container on the flat bed was made for transportation of the planes in ckd form directly to the front airfields. Does anybody have any picture of how the conlainer looked inside when loaded?

Happy searching, Jan.

[Dick Wheat]

Hi I have the ball hitch from queen mary trailer if any one wants one, free but you would have to collect, quite heavy.DICK

[Les Freathy]

A Crossley IGL 3 ton 6x4 used by the RAF in the 1930s and into the early days of WW2. Some with special type bodies would have survived throughout the war

[RedToo]

Hello All,

I am looking for any photos or blueprints of the Albion AM463 RAF Refueller. They are to help in having this vehicle included in the forthcoming WWII flight sim 'Storm of War: Battle of Britain' from Oleg Maddox at 1C Software. I have found some pics from the Imperial War Museum but they are rather small. I wondered if any one here has any that they are willing to share. Oleg Maddox's current flight sim is 'IL2 Sturmovik-Forgotten Battles' which covers many WWII theatres but not the Battle of Britain. If any one is interested in this sim the following links take you to 1) agood forum on the sim and 2) the thread about the Albion Refueller.

http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimat...bb=forum;f=144

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boa...f=144;t=005953

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andrew McCann
RedToo.

[RWDiesel]

Originally Posted by RedToo

Hello All,

I am looking for any photos or blueprints of the Albion AM463 RAF Refueller. They are to help in having this vehicle included in the forthcoming WWII flight sim 'Storm of War: Battle of Britain' from Oleg Maddox at 1C Software. I have found some pics from the Imperial War Museum but they are rather small. I wondered if any one here has any that they are willing to share. Oleg Maddox's current flight sim is 'IL2 Sturmovik-Forgotten Battles' which covers many WWII theatres but not the Battle of Britain. If any one is interested in this sim the following links take you to 1) agood forum on the sim and 2) the thread about the Albion Refueller.

http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimat...bb=forum;f=144

http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boa...f=144;t=005953

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andrew McCann
RedToo.

Hello

Came across this site, no idea what they are discussing, but the pictures are interesting enough: http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=14858

Cheers Ronald

[Radek]

hi Ronald
try this
http://translate.google.cz/translate...02%26t%3D14858

[RedToo]

Hi All,

These screenshots of some of the vehicles and buildings in SoW: BOB have just been put up. If the Albion refueller makes it in it will be of similar quality.

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/restranger/

There are several screens to look through.

Andrew McCann
RedToo.

[Les Freathy]

Amongst a batch of transport snapshots purchased last weekend were these twp RAF shots. In the first one it would appear that two of the Crossley ballast tractors are under going repairs

[George McKenzie]

Originally posted by Jan Mostek
The RAF vehicles are very interesting topics. Here are several views of Mack NR6 used for tranpostation purposes in Noth Africa.
Happy searching, Jan.

Does any one want to buy a truck lie this I have one for sale George McKenzie

[Les Freathy]

Crossley Q of TAF 34 backing on to a landing craft

[Les Freathy]

Whilst a spare hour has thrown itself at me thought i would include a few more in this thread

1. Albion AM463 ambulance, this photo was taken fairly late in the war but the vehicle still has its pre war number

A pre war photo of the AM463 tender

The 3 ton Crossley Q tender with wooden body, it obvious where the cab gained the nickname the garden shed

and last, two of the Ford WOT 1 6x4 bulk fuel tanker

[Rlangham]

Wow, brilliant stuff - have never seen the Fordson WOT1 fuel tanker before. Still looking for more photos of RAF vehicles, fire tenders especially (Fordson WOT1 if i'm going to be really specific).

[Les Freathy]

The only bloody manhole in the desert and he has to find it, a Crossley IGL in problems

[Les Freathy]

Crossley Q 3 ton tenders in Burma, heading for the local ferry by the looks of it

[Les Freathy]

Not sure here i think its a mobile operations room, note Liberator in the background