[Darren Witty]

I has just spent hours looking through journals trying to locate information on my carrier. There are about 26 journals and there are in no particular order except one that has all the armored vehicles. You may have a short list of FORD trucks then a couple of trailers and then a group of carriers. So its a matter of sitting there and literally going through each journal page by page. Saying that, the journals are listed in ARN numbers so if you have the ARN you can go to that book and locate the info for that vehicle. My problem was that I had the hull number only so I had to go through until I found that hull number which I did. I have attached a photo of that page and you can go down the second last column and see 1105 which is my vehicle. The coloum to the left is the original engine number. I went through the engine numbers and found my engine number and which carrier that was originally fitted to. The next two columns are the type and model of vehicle. LP2a Carrier. The next is the ARN, mine being T16990. The next three columns will tell you about OS service. My vehicle doesn't seem to have any but you can see the one above went to the Middle East ME on the 8/1/1942. On the opposite page there are some notes on each vehicle. The next attached photo shows those notes on the opposite page. The top line refers to my vehicle i.e allotted to the AMF with ARN C26698 on the 30/12/1941 with the order number next. Some have information about disposal dates most carriers being around 1958. That is it! Nothing more. From what I have seen of the records there doesn't seem to have been many vehicles returned from the ME. Many have a big red line drawn threw them either LOST IN GREECE or ABANDONED IN M.E. Hope this helps