Commer Q2: Truck, 15-cwt, 4x2, Van

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by cliff

just down the road from my place in Gympie about 12 months ago. Is this one of the same type?

yes Cliff,

They were marketed here post ww2 and sold through Rootes dealers as a civilian truck . Rather rare as I've never seen one myself, but I've seen pics of them, mostly small trucks with ute type bodies . I think they ran the contemporary Humber 6 side valve motor but I could be wrong I have an article on a restored example here, the owner chose to install a later OHV 4 cyl. motor.

Mike

[Mike K]

A snowy mountains hydro series 1 Land Rover tows a Commer, circa 1950 Cooma, NSW .

National archives pic . The SMHA purchased approx. 2000 of the 1950 model Land Rovers.

Mike

[Mike K]

In West Aussie ...its a 48 model..common with many post war models.. a carry over from the earlier models eg WW2.

http://ccmv.fotopic.net/p29160070.html

Mike

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Another surviving Commer. This one is the Q2´s smaller brother, the Q15. Hailing from the UK, it nowadays resides in Holland! Source: www.spear-head.nl

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Another surviving Commer. This one is the Q2´s smaller brother, the Q15. Hailing from the UK, it nowadays resides in Holland!

This Q15 has since been repainted in an attractive, but incorrect RAF blue colour:

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[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

In West Aussie ...its a 48 model..common with many post war models.. a carry over from the earlier models eg WW2.
http://ccmv.fotopic.net/p29160070.html

Hi Mike

Your link to CCMV leads to a really interesting collection of photos of Military and Civilian Trucks, I spent a long time wondering around it the pictures.

Their home page is http://ccmv.fotopic.net/ thanks for giving me another reason to sit in front of the computer screen when I should be out in the shop working. But it is an interesting bunch of photos.

Cheers Phil

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Your link to CCMV leads to a really interesting collection of photos of Military and Civilian Trucks, I spent a long time wondering around it the pictures.

Their home page is http://ccmv.fotopic.net/ thanks for giving me another reason to sit in front of the computer screen when I should be out in the shop working. But it is an interesting bunch of photos.

Yes Phil,

I did the same ..many restored old trucks there ..hours of pics to look at. Many military trucks as well . I think anyone can send in pics to add to the list.

[Alex van de Wetering]

I remember seeing another British-owned 30cwt Commer Q2 at the Dutch liberation day in 1995; will scan a pic of the truck in question in the next few days (also remember we discussed the truck in another MLU thread)

There should be another closed cab Commer (Q2?) in one of the bigger Australian MV museums; saw it on a DVD, just last week.

Than there is the Q2 tractor with Queen Mary that used to be in Holland a few years ago.....not a COE like the one on Ian Hardy's website, but one WITH a nose....Hanno, you probably know where that one is right now.


Anyway, back to the subject....I haven't seen too much information, nor surviving examples of the 15cwt. I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

This one is the Q2´s smaller brother, the Q15. Hailing from the UK, it nowadays resides in Holland!

Would this be a wartime combo....or is this a post-war rebuild of one of the 15cwt's...fitted with a closed cab from a Q2 or Q4? (can't remember seeing a 15cwt Commer with closed cab before...)

Alex

p.s. On the subject of Commer's.....any 3 ton Q4's surviving anywhere? or only the post-war ones?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex,

Would be interesting to see that drawing.

Here´s a 1:76 scale kit of the 15-cwt RAF van: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72213

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex,

Could that drawing be this one?

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Some more information from modelling magazines or books:

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