Hi Everyone,
said 1943 Guy "Ant" Z4646406 has been sold and is now under new stewardship but still in NZ. If I recall correctly there were 20 to 22 Guy "Ant"s shipped to N.Z. most were G.S. but I have seen one chassis in Auckland that was all that remained of a "Wireless-Ant". Of the NOS parts I sold with the truck, a set of drums was tagged for shipment to Fiji, which suggests there was at least one there during the war.
As for service with the B.E.F., I worked with a Scottish chap that lived in Hamilton, N.Z. who was with the B.E.F. as part of a M.G. section. His truck was an "Ant". The truck took a direct hit from a Stuka and he was captured, spending the remainder of the war interred. You can only imagine the look on his face when 50 years later he got to sit behind the wheel of another "Ant".
Cheers,
Dave
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