Commer Q2: Truck, 15-cwt, 4x2, Van

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by S LATHERON

I believe that theres a similar truck in Bishop Auckland County Durham UK.
Noth East Military Vehicle club member Possibly MVT as well

Stephen,

You mean this one? Source: http://www.scottishmvg.org/8.html
Apparently it is owned by Malcolm Bogaert, he´s a member of this forum, too.

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Besides the GS, Explosives Van and Van, the Q2 came in the guise of a Tractor as well.

I´ll make an effort to list the differences between the various Q2´s from the sources I have.

Pic source: www.ianhardy.net

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I´ll make an effort to list the differences between the various Q2´s from the sources I have.

Commer made 15-cwt 4x2 trucks in the following variants:

• Q15 GS
• Q2 Van
• Q2 FFW

Entries from Vanderveen's Historic Military Vehicles Directory:

Commer Q15.jpg

Commer Q2.jpg

Commer Q2 post-war.jpg

[Davistine Liddle]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Besides the GS, Explosives Van and Van, the Q2 came in the guise of a Tractor as well.

I´ll make an effort to list the differences between the various Q2´s from the sources I have.

Pic source: www.ianhardy.net

I found this similar commer Q2 but its a Bus here in india (Commer Q2 1938). It belonged to Maharaja of Dhar(Princely State)......He is saying its a only survivor left hope it will help

link: https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vinta...thread-60.html

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Davistine Liddle

I found this similar commer Q2 but its a Bus here in india (Commer Q2 1938). It belonged to Maharaja of Dhar(Princely State)......He is saying its a only survivor left hope it will help

Davistine,

Thanks, a nice example of the many variants Commer built. I think this bus is based on a Forward Control Q chassis.

See http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/ARCC/catalogue.html#commer for a full list of types built by Commer (part of the Rootes Archive Center).

The site lists the following wartime Superpoises:

Superpoise Q Series (1939-54, built at Luton) in 2-3 ton, 3-4 ton and 6-1/2 ton pre-war models.

Q2 2-3 ton (1939-41, 1946-48)
Q3 3-4 ton (1939-45, 1946-48)
Q4 4-5 ton (1939-45, 1946-48)
Q5 6-1/2 ton (1939-43, 1947)
Q15 15 cwt van (1939-49)
Q25 25 cwt van (1939-49)

Other than that, they have very little information on military Commers on their site, though, and only one picture captioned "Commer Q4, Ministry of Supply, Archive Centre Luton Collection."

commer_q4_MoS.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

David, Phil,

Thanks for the background on the models!

Phil, you may want to check W&T #75 to see if these are the same models as displayed by Rootes after WW2.

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Now as to are any of these models the subject of this thread?

No, none of them are Commers.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some pics from Commer Lorries WW2:

Caption: "Commer Q15 RAF".

In reality it is a one-off prototype Commer Q2 with RAF Van type Radio Body,
the Type "E" Insulated Wireless Shell, also known as the Type "E" Signals Body.
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Caption: "RASC Commer Q4 lorry middle east WW2"
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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Screenshots from one of the episodes of Worker and War-Front, 1942-1946.

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