Western Desert images

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Two more, date and location unknown but they seem to fit in with the other ones in this thread.



I think this is a C15 Cab 13 with 2B1 body - it is difficult to see without roof and with German prisoners piled on top!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

War In The Western Desert
Date taken: August 1942
Photographer: Bob Landry


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...a5d2256d4.html


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...7ad041319.html


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...6d9130e3a.html


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...825853001.html


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...3a2395f1f.html

[Ed Storey]

Here is an image from the wartime RCAF PL Series.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Western Desert After Axis Retreat
Date taken: December 1942
Photographer: Bob Landry


Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...41575cf00.html



Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life...72ff18b35.html

Edited to add:
The lower picture shows an American made 1938 Ford V8 cabriolet, according to Alexander Scott. The census number comes from a block "LP" which stand for locally procured, as far as I know. And Nick Balmer noted:

It is interesting that the census number is both in Arabic numerals as well as English ones.
It was normal to put Arabic numbers as well as the normal WD numbers on vehicles that operated in the Canal Zone and Cairo, particularly during the earlier years of the war in Egypt, but this was done less and less as the war ramped up and more a more vehicles arrived.
This suggests that this vehicle had already been in Allied hands for a year or more by the date the photo is assigned to, December 1942.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Chevrolet C15 4x2 somewhere in the North African desert. Photo from an article published in the summer of 1943 (via Roger Milam).