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26-03-14, 10:36
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RAF Vehicles
On second thoughts this Crash Tender may be brown with a dark grey disruptive camo
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26-03-14, 23:23
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It looks like a prewar Crossley IGL. According to Bart Vanderveen they were built in 1935/1936 as fire tenders. Here is one preserved in Madrid, Spain, albeit with postwar cab. source: crossley-motors.org.uk
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21-04-14, 16:41
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RAF Radar
Here is a type I have not seen before with folding radar. A Mack I think?
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22-04-14, 12:54
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RAF Rolls royce Tender truck
Gentlemen..
Does any body have any info on these RAF Tender trucks? I believe they are converted Rolls royce silver-ghost cars. As far as I know they where used for assistance to the armoured car squadrons. If any one knows more on these trucks, I would love to know.  Knipsel6.jpg here is the same vehicle second in line.  18624v_zps9c3adee6.jpg Last edited by Hanno Spoelstra; 22-04-14 at 21:09. Reason: please attach pictures to your posting - the photobucket link will one day disappear....
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22-04-14, 13:48
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Great photos Leon! Thanks for posting. Good luck with you query!
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22-04-14, 21:05
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RAF Armed Tender
Out of interest the wheels and the radiator look very much like a Rolls Royce. Also this type of vehicles was built for the RAF in 1938 on a Fordson 79, 30 cwt 4x2, of 1937 vintage and were known as Fordson Armed Tender Type F.
BTW - Did these come from this site? http://www.flickr.com/photos/3941174...n/photostream/
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22-04-14, 21:36
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According to Bart Vanderveen's excellent book on pre-war vehicles, such armoured tenders were built on the RR Silver Ghost chassis beginning in 1917 with single rear wheels and in 1921, upgraded to dual rears.
Not being a researcher on armoured subjects, I don't know much about them. However, during the Palestine/Arab conflicts of the late 1930's, they re-appeared in the configuration shown in your photos, upgraded once more with modern pneumatic tyres of a larger size. I have found one photo in my files, appended here, and it looks like a sister to yours with a very close registration number. I will continue to look for these tenders "in the background" in some of the many other Palestine conflict photos in my files. I also have a fair amount of similar Ford Tender photos and even a couple of Israeli CMP home made A/Cs after 1948 if it is of interest to the group. Bill
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