25 pounder tractors

[Lang]

Mike,

Probably had enough power to pull a 25 pounder along the road. No good off road without low range and four wheel drive and I think the gun would have pulled the bum out of such a light chassis! Mentioned above that they did not have the towing gear anyhow.

The captions on some of the photos are very poor if the photos got separated from their original descriptions and "somebody" made a guess. Of course many of the photos - probably the majority in military libraries - were taken by professional photographers who, not knowing a jeep from a bicycle, made gross errors in descriptions if they did not bother or get a chance to actually talk to the people involved.

You only have to be involved with a modern newspaper photographer to see, despite a 15 minute interview, captions on the photos so far away from the facts it doesn't matter!

Despite the caption on that Syrian photo which Cliff put up fully above, I would bet a stack of money those Humber trucks had nothing to do with the guns and were just going about their business when the shutter clicked! Then again maybe they had just arrived to bring lunch for the boys? Gun crews travel in their trucks and the Humbers look like you can fit two anorexic midgets in the back - not there to pick up personnel either to my mind.

The only possibility is they were transport for the CO and HQ people and possibly survey section. Has anybody else seen photos of Humbers being used by Australian units either as their own vehicles or on attachment from British transport pools?

Lang