Royal Navy vehicles

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Originally Posted by Larry Hayward

Photos of RN vehicles seem to be quite rare, as they hardly needed many!

These units had most of the RN vehicles in the Med.

Here are the only photos I have of My Grandfathers RN vehicles. He was transfered to the RN in April 1942 in Alexandria to form the port salvage units for the Inshore Squadron in the Mediterranean. He was land based even though he was a fully qualified Marine Engineer (Chief). His Port Parties were with the first Army units into the ports from El Alamein via Tobruk, Tripoli etc to Bizerta. They cleared the mines below and above water, the booby-traps and then refloated or demolished anythis blocking the port, then they repaired anything that was in the ports to supply the Army.

The first two photos are of the the RN mobile workshops enroute to Beirut from Alexandria in June 1942 to set up the base for the 1st Submarine Flotilla. (during the scare of Rommel reaching Alexandria).
Can anybody identify the trucks?

Part 1 see next post for part 2.

Regards Stephen Morse