Commer Q2: Truck, 15-cwt, 4x2, Van

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Wheels & Tracks magazine issue no.75 featured a reprint from from the British magazine Autocar published on 13 April 1945. The article records the travelling exhibition mounted by the Rootes Group, then one of Britian's leading motor manufacturers, of a series of 1:10 scale models of the military vehicles produced by Rootes during the war. When reading the magazine, I wondered where the models would have ended up?

Now, 18 years later, looking for something else on the https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/ website, I came across three entries for Commer 1:10 scale models. Attached are pictures from W&T magazine of the Q15 and Q2 Van. They also have a model of the "Commer Q.4 GS Wagon". Maybe the other models depicting RAF vehicles were donated to the IWM as well?

Commer Q2 GS Wagon - RAF 7263
Dimensions: whole: L: 19.5in W: 8in H: 9.5in Weight: 10kg incl case Scale: 1/10

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Commer Q15 GS Wagon - RAF 96261

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