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servicepub (RIP) · #1 15-10-10, 03:15

I have no idea what make/model this truck is but there is no doubt who owned it when photographed.

Alex Blair (RIP) · #2 15-10-10, 03:32

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Originally Posted by servicepub

I have no idea what make/model this truck is but there is no doubt who owned it when photographed.

Clive..
I'm not positive but could be a M-H..
See the Ford design front axle housing for the front wheel drive..
But not positive.
And the front wheels and dual rear wheels..
All typical of M-H..

KiwiKev · #3 15-10-10, 04:23

Its a GMC ACK353 ex French Contract.
The reason for the Ford like front Diff is that they are Timken (split) diffs and they used Budd five stud wheels

All the best
Kevin

Alex van de Wetering · #4 15-10-10, 10:20

I agree with Kevin.....An ACK353 during it's ownership by the third (?) party.....French, German, Canadian.

Interesting picture Clive. Do you know where and when it was taken?

source: http://yemenclassiccars.tripod.com
(but likely to be borrowed from Bart VanderVeen's military vehicles directory)

Keith Brooker · #5 17-10-10, 13:38

photo taken off my original ww2 neg from 1940. can any one ID the sign on the Bedford looks like yellow blue yellow & L4164374 on the bedford & L181462 on the bonnet on its own = the German has the number 537 on his uniform shoulder strap with yellow around the edge.

Keith Brooker · #6 17-10-10, 16:45

This is the same bedford in the background with a close up of the german that is in the other photo that i have from my original colour negs collection. you can see the 537.

Rich Payne · #7 17-10-10, 19:28

L181462 relates, according to the Chilwell lists, to a Ford Lorry, 1 ton 4x2 GS (V3593 - L181101 - L181600).

I wonder if the marking that we're looking at on the off-side wing is the yellow top corner over blue of the tactical marking for a Royal Artillery Survey Regiment with a white bar below indicating Army troops ? It's my best guess from thumbing through Hodges & Taylor anyway.

Keith Brooker · #8 14-02-11, 14:17

I have just bought this ID plate.

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Truck 3 Ton 4 WHLD GS Body Mark ?.
Vauxhall Motors Ltd 1939.
Luton England.
Contract No V3731.
WD No WT.

This plate was dug up in the Stalingrad Area . I know it says Vauxhall but i think it is a Bedford 3 ton truck [ Vauxhall made Bedfords], so the truck may have come from the BEF in 1940 and must have been just a year old when left. The plate / truck must have been hit as the plate has a big dent in it. I have a few ID plates from trucks but they do not have the WD Number or the Wait of the Veh stamped in the plate? Original Photo from my collection.

Keith Brooker · #9 14-02-11, 14:24

one more photo of a bedford in German use. Original from my collection. The other photo [above] was of a twin wheel bedford so not the right one?.

Maurice Donckers · #10 15-02-11, 07:56

I have the same plate on my Bedford MW body .

Keith Brooker · #11 15-02-11, 09:49

Does it have the same contract number as the plate i have has 3 ton and a bedford MW is 15 Cwt, then they were up rated to 1 ton after the war. Original photo from my collection.

Rich Payne · #12 03-08-11, 20:33

Another couple of Afrika shots from eBay.de