Unusual trucks

[Richard Farrant]

David,
Bill is on the same line of thought as me. This type of outfit was common years ago for transporting round timber. The rear bogie being detached from the truck and chained to the load, front of load secured on turntable on truck.
I did a quick search for AFS Takoradi and found one site that linked the two, AFS being American Field Service. Takoradi was on the route of the American supply flights to North Africa, via South America.
Now this truck could have been used for moving tree trunks as Ghana was a major source of timber. Could it be that the volunteers for the AFS were doing this to indirectly help the war effort, it appears there main role was operating field ambulances.

One other thing, the Auxillary Fire Service was not in being during the war, it was the National Fire Service then.

Just a thought............

Richard