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[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

AFAIK, either British Army or NZ Army. The Australian Army did not use the Bedford RL, but that is not to say that this could not be a RAAF Bring-Back from Malaysia or such. Who knows what those guys got up to in Butterworth and Singapore.

All the British Army RL's had a large military air cleaner known as the FVRDE type, this meant that there was a large panel in front of the windscreen secured by Dzus fasteners to access it, with a small flap in it to access the radiator filler. The RL in the photo shows the standard type cab with the civilian market access panel. It appears that military RL's supplied to other countries did not have the FV filter, not sure about NZ ones though. Also no cupola in the roof.

I worked on a good many British army RL's in the 70's/80's.