3 ton open cabbed 6x4 trucks

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Pete Ashby
the body looks like a home grown version I'm guessing it in Aus ?

That’s amazing the truck in your picture is 153 units after mine on the same contract ! Contract No 294/V/3929

Small world isn't it !

Hi Pete,

Small world indeed and there is more..........

The photo was taken in 1997 at an auction of museum exhibits in Newcastle, NSW. The workshop body I was told, was originally from an Australian Blitz 3 tonner, there was a Royal Navy serial number painted on the front of the cab, it may have been copied from original, we will never know.

After a Beltring show, several years ago, where I was looking after a friends Austin K6 Breakdown Gantry, a chap from the West of England, phoned me to see if I knew of a similar Gantry body to fit his............Retriever! I commented on how there were very few around and related about the one I saw in Australia, a few years before. He told me that it had been brought back to England and was being restored in Norfolk. Now....is that a small world, or what?

Richard