Hi Nuyt:
I got it off Ebay some time back and cannot retrieve the original bid information, sad to say. I was in a hurry and just grabbed the photo.
It would appear certain that the photo was taken in North Africa, the Middle East or even possibly on Crete or Malta or less likely, Greece. I say this only because of the style of uniform.
From this forum, there is a sort of agreement it is a Federal, the consensus on several others is that it is definitely a Federal and that is still my opinion.
While I cannot say for sure that such a Federal model was not taken up by any known military unit as a military truck, I tend to think it was an impressed/confiscated truck from possibly one of the countries I listed above and somehow found it's way to where the photo was taken.
The deeper part of the mystery is that it is LHD meaning generally it is ex US or ex Western Europe/Scandinavia but it most definitely has what I would call a British style body.
As best I remember, I got it off eBay.de from their militaria section 1918-1945 and although the sellers routinely misidentify what they are selling as regards type etc. they all seem to be of that era.
Give me a few days as I am now scrounging through my rather extensive civilian vehicles archives as well as many auto/truck magazine collections I have of the 1935-1945 period from Scandinavia and a couple of other countries. I would be fairly happy if I could jjust pin down the exact model and where it might have originated from.
Cheers
Bill
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