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Firstly, it was a Daimler Scout, taken at Cobbaton actually.
The Photo of the Boys ammo boxes is actually the other side of the same carrier featured in Nigels book you mentioned previously.
It is actually a Machine Gun carrier, the type converted to Bren carriers.
Of interest, I am not sure of the origin of the stowage diagram you posted, David Fletcher found these for the Cavalry Carrier, Scout and Bren. I sent copies to Nigel. David had known about them, but they were "lost", they had been mis-filed and he came across them by accident looking for something else.
Of note, the Scout stowage bears no relation to the actual stowage seen on any photo's I have, so I have some issue with the Bren.
The originals were p/copied from a series in the IWM collection, I was basically interested in the stowage arrangements, so concentrated on that detail rather than "historical" information.
I'm including what I have, but there appears to be nothing on the jack stowage, and the original drawings of the MG carrier, though detailed, do not show anything either.
I have converted them to a low res format, email me if you want hi-res, but remember, they are photocopies.
Now stop fighting you lot.
George.
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