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[centurion]

Many years ago I used to work for the Dunlop International Group who then had many very large rubber plantations out there. I used to speak with their management on a failrly regular basis. These guys had workshops that were very well equiped indeed and would have had the same level of self reliant capability in the 1950s. They had to build and maintain most of their own equipment and look after sizeable fleets of lorries. I don't think that a welded hull armoured car would be beyond their capabilities.

[dcrfan]

If I may open an old thread I recently borrowed a book on the Malaya Emergency published on Malaya so not widely internationally distributed, The Malayan Emergency Revisited 1948-1960: A Pictorial History by Muhammad Azzam bin Muhammad Hanif Ghows.

I looked at all the photos of armoured vehicles especially locally modified vehicles. How about something like this as a contender for the unknown hull that was dug up although it can't be this one was the buried hull appears to only have single forward opening.

IMG_2945 by tankienz, on Flickr

One of the most interesting photos was a Fox armoured car which I have never seen as operated during the Malaya Emergency.

Paul Napier

[Maurice Donckers]

we have to look at something from mid ww2 onwards , because of the welds , early machines where all riveted.

[dcrfan]

Have I had my black no see glasses on Is the vehicle above a Marmon-Herrington Mk 3 hull mounted on a new CMP chassis with some detail modifications?

Paul

[Lynn Eades]

Maurice, My Armoured O.P. Carrier was built in the Ford Dagenham factory. It rolled off the production line about October 1941. It was welded with Stainless rods. These welded hull carriers started being built in Sept. 41. My father said back then the rods had a paper wrap that held the flux. They ran high current and produced a fair bit of spatter.