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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
It seems the GS body in your picture had higher sides than the one on the survivor.
Turns out the K2 was the closed cab version of the Truck, 30-cwt, 4x2, GS (Austin K30).
Since the 30-cwt class was largely replaced by the 3-ton class during WW2, I was surprised to learn the K2 was produced from 1939 right up to 1945. Would the production numbers include the K2/Y ambulance?
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Hanno,
I am certain that the body on your friends Austin, does not have original sides. If you look at the vertical bars it is divided in to three, the original would have been four. Austins did seem to have higher sides, even the K3 3 tonner was like this.
The K2 is not a closed cab version of a K30 30 cwt. It is a replacement with 2 ton load capacity and would seem to have been used more by RAF, maybe it was the K30 that was mostly used by the army. The RAF used it for the following roles, GS, Domestic Fire Tender, Instrument and Electrical Servicing Workshop and 9kw Power Equipment, not forgetting the Ambulance.
The 30 cwt class was phased out in 1941 (Ford WOT3 and Bedford OXD ceased production at about the same time), not before about 4,500 of them were supplied. The Ambulance production was 13,102. All these production figures are from a Mike Conniford article from around 1983.
Richard
15-10-06, 19:25
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