RAF vehicles

[Larry Hayward]

Great film and not a blue RAF Jeep in sight (as they never had any in that colour on UK airfields or elsewhere for that matter in WW2)

[Richard Seymour]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Some scenes of RAF vehicles in colour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQAA2rcBno

Mmmm unable to view due to copyright

[Larry Hayward]

Les I know its been a while but in your post number 14, of the Ford Snowgo, what year was the photo taken?

I see it has black fenders which suggests post-war but so does the Fordson Sussex in post 26.

[Larry Hayward]

Can anyone ID this RAF panel van?

[Barry J. Cox]

Sure looks like my 1941 Ford Panel. Also looks like a Ford flathead engine.

[Larry Hayward]

Interestingly, this photo was taken in 1939 or very latest 1940, so I guess the van had a production run of a few years.

Its in RAF Blue-Grey, with gloss black fenders, which were a feature on their Fordson Sussex and other civi models. I wonder how they got away with that paint scheme, when every other manufacturer from 1937 had to paint the entire vehicle in RAF Blue-Grey?

Any idea of the exact model?

[Larry Hayward]

Here is another problem photo. This van is said to be a signals van and was shown in relation to a story of a Halifax that crashed in 1944, that was in need of some direction finding assistance but sadly crashed. The RAF Type number confirms it was taken after Type Numbers were introduced circa Jan 1944, and yet it has black front mudguards. So is this particular to a type of Ford van as in my previous post or perhaps the use of gloss black before it was ordered in 1946?

As for the colour it looks to be rather dull with traces of camo behind the passenger window, as if the roof is black or dark brown over SCC.2 brown - and yet the mudguards are left in gloss!

[Alexey Blaschuk]

Originally Posted by Barry J. Cox

Sure looks like my 1941 Ford Panel.

Right, but it's a model 1939. Three lines on a door and panel (mod 1941 had two).