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Thanks for the information about the military vehicles. The Ford is a bit of an oddball. It came from a wallet that included a wartime gas producer plant and I think was either dated, or I estimated from the pictures' serial numbers that it was 1943. The light cowls would tend to bear this out. The driven front axle didn't seem right and twin rear wheels seemed odd for a British military vehicle. The caption did imply that it was for civilian use though.
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It is just possible that it is a crashed/smashed rebuilt F30S and then sold onto the civvy market....if so it was with possibly a 1940 C8 the earliest demobbed CMPs I have come across. I myself prefer an immediate post-war demob and rebuild. The Southend-on-Sea registration was for 1939 onwards and is no clue, but the next series was in use in 1946 hence my suggestion of 1945 demob.