[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Firstly, somewhere is the statutory instrument that enabled military vehicles, WD, RAF, RN, to just use the Census Number and not require road fund licence taxation, albeit at the NIL rate. I suspect it was in the DEFENCE OF THE REALM REGULATIONS. I would go along with sometime in 1939.

The PSV Circle have huge collections of vehicle registration records and I have copies of some. There are whole sections of Middlesex allocations in the records, taken by someone who actually took the time to note them manually long ago. In some cases I know there are actual vehicles/chassis numbers against regos, others it just quotes an allocation block. The records also show WAR DEPARTMENT vehicles that were not military per se, or acquired by the WD after a civilian career. However from memory I have not yet seen any armoured vehicles listed. These may have been in the allocations that were kept under lock and key as it were under the OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT.

Has anyone ever checked at Kew to see if there is anything there? I assume that there is nothing as it would have been found by now and someone would have published the details.