Morris C8 "Water tank???", genuine WW2 body or post-war?

[Mike K]

This is the Queensland C8 ..it was for sale years ago .. the front wings are home made things and the water tank is off a CS8 or Beford I think . The asking price years ago was around 20K - for that money back then , you could fly to the UK and import something much better .MIKE

[Keith Brooker]

The 1944 Morris 4x4 were not built until late 44 and most did not enter the war until the very end, most photos of them are of them in Korea and after, my 1944 Morris came out of service in 1957.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Personally I think it is a pity they left it in it's non-original configuration, museum visitors are now lead to believe these type of trucks were driving around in WW2.

Couldn't agree more. It would have been easy enough to build a GS body for it, but I understand that the museum staff at the time bought this truck in particular because of it's water tank....and probably didn't realise the body is post-war. The truck now has "FUEL" painted in yellow on the side of the tank

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

but I understand that the museum staff at the time bought this truck in particular because of it's water tank....and probably didn't realise the body is post-war. The truck now has "FUEL" painted in yellow on the side of the tank

They can loan my copy of Vanderveen's Historic Military Vehicles Directory anytime. Help is just a forum message, e-mail or phone call away . . .

[Hanno Spoelstra]

And it is back up for sale as "very rare and very collectable":

https://www.milweb.net/webvert/a4355/97343

[Alex van de Wetering]

And it is back up for sale as "very rare and very collectable":

Well a PU 8/4 is very rare......and some of the advert is about a PU 8/4.....text probably borrowed from somewhere else and is not related to the C8.

The 4x4 PU 8/4, as displayed, entered production in 1940. Even though the PU 8/4 shared the engine and most other components with the CS8/C4, the load capacity was reduced to 8-cwt to improve performance.