Mystery British WDS trucks

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The original print, which I have in front of me, indicates that it was an experimental Fordson lorry, allocated to the Mechanical Warfare Experimental Establishment, as it then was, in Farnborough, Hampshire, and has "V.21196" on the cowl side. Also maximum speed 20 mph! The registration is a Middlesex County Council one, MG xxxx. There were two Government batches reserved in the MG series, and the first was issued 21st December 1928, so this could be a 1929-on lorry. The War Office started buying Fordsons around 1935, so I don't know if this was a unique vehicle, but at the time it was a trials/experimental one.