Indian Pattern HUP (was: Chevy Indian Backbody)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Nigel Watson

Silly question maybe but are those angle straps on the curved part of the roof edge tensioner straps for a canvas sheet roof on this body? So perhaps there is no solid roof which would make sense.

Nigel, good question, actually!

Having had a closer look I think you are right. The curved roof edges seem to be made of curved sheet metal (see survivor), the top must have been open covered by canvas.

H.

[Alan McGuinness]

IWM pictures A30972 and A31173:

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[Phil Waterman]

Hi Alan

Wonder what the story is behind the lady and the leopard? This week the was quite a lot of coverage on TV of a leopard climbing on the roof of a safari vehicle in a game preserve in Africa. Wonder if leopards just want/enjoy riding?

Cheers Phil

[David Dunlop]

Maybe it’s a Jaguar Wannabe, Phil.

David

[Alan McGuinness]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Wonder what the story is behind the lady and the leopard?

The caption say: "WAFFLES" THE LEAPORD JOINS THE NAVY. 2 NOVEMBER 1945, ROYAL NAVAL WIRELESS STATION, NEDIMALA, COLOMBO. WAFFLES, BELONGS TO LIEUT CDR JACOMB, RN AND WAS DISCOVERED ON A FARM AT HANRANA, NEAR TRINCOMALEE AFTER HE AND HIS SISTER HAD BEEN CAPTURED IN THE JUNGLE."

The lady is Temporary Woman Assistant Daphne Noyle.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

One more picture, courtesy of Philip Winterburn.

I think the marking on the bumper reads "RAF POLICE".

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Two more pics, these are in use with Dutch troops in Indonesia. They took over vehicles and other equipment from British and Indian Army troops which first occupied Indonesia in 1945 after the Japanese surrender. The Dutch first had to muster troops to take occupation duties over from them, which they did from 1946 onwards.

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Toby Brayley wrote:

"Lance Corporal Walter Carlton, Corps of Military Police (India), and his Chevrolet Truck, Poona 1946. Is this an official factory-made body? The CMP (I) ( not the truck ) seem to have used quite a few of these across the Provost Companies in India and Burma."
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"The same vehicle from a different photo album"
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