I am astigmatic and myopic. Hence problems seeing fine detail!
Address as always is in the profile but please do send through to:
david@transpenninepublishing.co.uk
Thanks Shane, mate! Your stuff is fantastic! Although these papers and their ilk might be in the UK national archives at Kew, south-west London, they may have been filed somewhere under some obscure reference or they may have never been sent through. I found German bombing photos of Southampton in the NARA, Washington, and nothing in Kew....and lots of info abouth the CMD Southampton in the DND papers in Ottawa!
I should add that I have pre-war information from the DND papers about the development of the standard military vehicle to WD Spec. 36. These papers mention the various types of vehicles covered by the Specifications including "Cavalry Portees", and Morris-Commercial C8 derivatives. The papers therefore mention about Portee bodies and other information and state that drawings of these bodies were sent to Ottawa from 1937. I shall see if I can reciprocate and look through my notes about the subject for you. If I can lay my hands on the Xeroxes of the original papers I might be able to find the copy of the Spec. 36 papers that were placed in the DND file. If I had not seen that file I would never have known that these had ever been drawn up at Woolwich!