ATS training

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I have e mailed you with a better image Richard. Thanks!

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

I have e mailed you with a better image Richard. Thanks!

have replied David

[Radek]

Here is the picture

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

This lorry has a wooden body with a van - type canopy. I don't think it's an Austin.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry1.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry3.jpg

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

This is an unusal Austin K series...a K2? Note it's a cab with wooden body.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry2.jpg

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

..on a postcard please!


As regards "T.C.M.T." it appears to mean therefore "TRAINING CENTRE, MOTOR TRANSPORT", which must have been the ATS showcase depot in Camberley, Surrey (there was later one in Edinburgh) which Princess Elizabeth trained at. However one source suggests that it was the MTTC, for "Motor Transport Training Centre". That makes more sense but the RASC-style plates do have "T.C.M.T." quite clearly.



Radek, I have now got the high resolution images of the Austins on a CD. There is one more of a 10hp Tilly being painted (1942?) and another with the front end of one/rear of another 10hp circa 1940. They are of excellent quality if you want to order copies direct...you can have prints or on a CD (which is better as you can print yourself).

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

This is an unusal Austin K series...a K2? Note it's a cab with wooden body.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry2.jpg

David,

Number on bonnet looks like 151156, or thereabouts, cannot see a prefix letter though. This would put it in a group of impressed vehicles, which fits as it has the civilian pattern radiator grille. Cannot see length of truck but probably a K2

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

This lorry has a wooden body with a van - type canopy. I don't think it's an Austin.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry1.jpg

David,

A Morris ambulance

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

That's a rare bird...a MCC Ambulance! I agree that the rad looks like a MCC one. THANKS.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

That's a rare bird...a MCC Ambulance! I agree that the rad looks like a MCC one. THANKS.

David,

There are one or two in preservation..or where. Pretty sure it was not MCC though, as it was a car derivitive and badged as just Morris.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I am going to post an extract of the windscrneen of the MCC C.2 as it in the right side are a tax disc, with "EXEMPT" on it, as we have seen before, and also a shtee typed up headed "DEFENCE OF THE REALM" with the "W.D. No. V..." which I thinks states that it is being driven on His Majesty's Service, so licensing etc. rules don't apply. I have often wondered when the regulations came in that a) no civvy-style Middlesex County Council rego need not to be used, and b)when the Road Fund License was no longer needed to be displayed (merely the "W.D. No." quoted).

Note also the 30-cwt C.2 was orignally prefixed , and as at the date of the photo,"V" for "Van" though by the time of the Census List this had become "L" for "Lorry".

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Sorry about the hi-res but for reasons of clarity I left it as produced. I assume that under the Visiting Forces Act the Canadian vehicles landed by spring 1940 were exempt from tax discs, etc., and again on HM Service.

http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/aaw459a.jpg