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Old 13-09-05, 21:53
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The size of the turret and the side port would seem to rule out any of the known British, French (Panhard) or Japanese ACs known to be have been used in Malaya. However three points
1 Although the web page you provide now comes up as unavailable I have managed to pick up a very small picture linked to it that appears to be another picture of the same vehicle but from the side. Detail is very poor but it does seem to have a bonnet not shown on the view from the back and above shown in this thread.
2. During the Emergency in the 1950s a number of the larger tea estates maintained their own armoured cars for running supplies up to the highlands from the towns. These were built by their own workshops. The BOH company had just such a vehicle complete with turret probably built on the chassis of an estate lorry (an Austin?). This might be an explanation
3 A bit of a long shot but armoured rail cars were als used during the emergency. The body in the photo has a sort of rail car shape (but it certainly isn't the Wickham that was one of the main types used,. However once again some vehicles were converted in country
Soory this reply is a bit late but I'vr only just registered with MLU
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