[David_Hayward (RIP)]

There must if you think about it, have been some Portees (2-Pounder) in England to be rebuilt. We know that converted 17-Pounder tractors were used in Italy, so logically were rebuilt in say Alexandria and then shipped to Sicily or mainland Italy. I assume that the MCC and Chevrolet Portees sold to New Zealand in 1944 came from England although they could have been sold direct from North Africa although that latter suggestion does not make sense. I would like to know if there was any evidence of vehicles being shipped from North Africa to England in late 1943 ready for the Normandy Invasion.

The only hard evidence I have of any vehicle being exported from the UK and repatriated is of crates of Morris-Commercial CD wreckers that were evidently exported at some time...to the Mid-East?....and then crated up and sent to Liverpool and uncrated with vehicle re-assembled by Ministry of Supply contractor. Does anyone have any evidence please that vehicles not sent to Italy were shipped back, crated or uncrated, to the UK in advance of D-Day?