Austin 3ton

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Neil Ashley
I had always assumed obviously wrongly that the vehicles with the lowered head light position were modified post-war. I believe a batch came out of Norway about 15 years ago and they all had the lowered head light position.

I assume their is photographic / manual evidence to confirm this late war modification?

This was recently discussed with Graeme Sty, long time K2 ambulance owner, who now runs the K2 Ambulance register, see his website;
www.tech-designz.com/k2ambulance.htm

On his site is the following, I quote "in 1944, Austin moved the headlamps grill to bumper....making a new grille with no holes in it.............then in 1945, civilian K2 lorries were supplied with lights back in the old position at top of grille"

By the way, the second K3 shown is another local owner to me and I know that truck is ex-Danish Army, so that could account for the light positons on the wings, it certainly has the holes in the side of the grille.