Canvas-covered square roof hatch

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
who knows more about these square canvas-covered roof hatches? I suspect they were made as retrofit kits to be fitted by workshops in-theatre.

Hanno,

As a quick answer, No. 4 Base Workshops REME in the Middle East, based around Cairo, produced 38,700 observation hatches for B vehicles in the period between Jan 42 and Aug 44.

Richard