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06-01-10, 11:48
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In fact they have used 3 Ford F8 and 3 Ford C11ADF Station wagons. None of the F8 was used as a W/T truck (although we know now that this was the original purpose of one of these trucks). The W/T equipment was installed into one of te C11ADF.
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06-01-10, 21:06
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Demands
I have looked at the Census Numbers visible..I thought that they were 'Z 49...etc' but I don't think that this is correct. With the wireless suggstiuon I queried if they were in the batch Z 4544303 to Z 4544367 under Demand S/M 2030, assembled at Dagenham under Contract 294/V/4699, 'Truck 8 cwt 4x2 G/S' Model EC011DF. I think that these were bodied in the UK along with C.8s under demand S/M 2029, which were certainly supplied via the UK and direct to the Mid-East. There may also have been direct deliveries to the Mid-East of the F.8s.
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06-01-10, 22:16
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I'll go with Kuno on the number being Z4523030.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2
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07-01-10, 10:02
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Numbers
That number is just outside the allocation of (3000) F15s delivered to Egypt under S/M 2002, some of which ended up with the AIF. It appears that it must have been a S/M 2030 truck, with a Mid-East allocation number.
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07-01-10, 10:42
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Clarification
1. Demand S/M 2002 was for 3,000 F15s delivered direct to Egypt and 500 to Mombasa. Z 4520080 was issued to the AIF, and so it is assumed that the series ran Z 4520001 and up, to q maximum of 4523000.
2. There are no known (yet) Demands for Mid-East direct F8 trucks of the period, but the assumption is that these were to S/M 2030, as S/M 2029 included C8 trucks delivered, as with 2030, to England and also direct to Egypt. The number must have been in a batch after the F15 Mid-East Theatre allocation.
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