Morris PU: BEF Dunkirk? Unit, registration?

[rewdco]

Ian,

It was on eBay.de last week, but I see that it's sold now...
http://www.ebay.de/sch/zilpy/m.html?...id=p4340.l2562

Jan

[Rich Payne]

The location is not immediately obvious to me. The vehicle looks to be standing on sand but the tree growth behind doesn't immediately suggest the dunes from De Panne to Dunkerque. I wondered about the area around Calais.

We know from photos posted earlier that some WOC1s were there but not who they were with.

The only hope now with the photo is to watch if the buyer posts feedback and then contact him to ask if he'd share a decent copy to help off-set his costs. No harm in asking and some say yes.

[Keith Brooker]

Here are two original photos from my collection. One only good for parts, Photo of one in German use, rare to see with cammo frame on top.
Keith

[Alex van de Wetering]

Excellent pictures guys! Why is it that there are so much German pictures turning up on Ebay nowadays?

2nd photo, rare to see with cammo frame on top.
Keith

Or a German radio antenna?

[Rich Payne]

I think that you're right about the Wehrmacht FFW bits Alex.

The answer to your question, I'd suspect is that German house clearers have discovered that the albums and photos they find in attics and which they used to be embarrassed about are now an easily saleable gold-mine !

Added to that, even the children of those who served in 1940 are getting old now and I can't imagine that finding out what Grandfather did during the war is quite as popular in Germany as it is in the on the 'Allied' side.

I find it a bit of a shame that the pictures are being removed from their context but I can't grumble about all the new BEF images.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Keith Brooker

Here are two original photos from my collection. 1st one only good for parts, 2nd photo, rare to see with cammo frame on top.
Keith

Keith,

First pic looks like a Ford WOC that has been rear ended by an Austin K30, obviously to destroy them.

[Ian McCallum]

Originally Posted by Keith Brooker

Here are two original photos from my collection. 1st one only good for parts, 2nd photo, rare to see with cammo frame on top.
Keith

Keith,

Many thanks for sharing your pics of WOC1'S. I now have far more images of them abandoned, destroyed and in German hands than in British service! Perhaps that in itself is telling me something.

Keep looking guys.

Ian

[Rich Payne]

Originally Posted by Ian McCallum

Keep looking guys.Ian

I'm still looking, Ian !...Stumbling around the Belgian Ceges Soma archive which is not especially user friendly.



I haven't checked the location yet. Is it Le Havre ?

Census number looks to be Z4128345 - another V3615 vehicle.

Quite a well - photographed vehicle, the BEF WOC1 ! The markings are elusive though.

[Ian McCallum]

Hi Rich,

More astounding pictures. I wonder if they missed any during the recovery?

Any ideas how do I go about getting copies without the good old 'copyright' logo? Interesting as this is the first photo showing a WOC with the wheel arch extensions as fitted to mine. Others show the modified recut wing version. I cannot determine why there are the two variants and there does not appear to be any logic, or a natural change during the build programme. I have photos from both contracts and at different intervals in the contract with both options? All I can think is that several 'bodyshops ' were outsourced to modify them and they were fitted at random in the build programme as available. Ian

[Rich Payne]

Ian, it looks to be quite straightforward to obtain a digital image from them although prices are on application if you want more than 300dpi.

http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/banque_img_en.php

These scans are from period copies of German propaganda images so the quality of the original may not be great - but better than on-line.

If you want to order, send me a personal message and I'll try to tell you where to find the pictures. It doesn't seem to be possible to hyperlink to search results and it's always searching within a search to find anything.

Rich