Protec Khaki Green No.3

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Lanes Motors, for example, were one of several awarded assembly contracts for jeeps.

Mike C

Lanes Motors, being the official Victorian Morris distributor , also had first option on the surplus Morris Commercial vehicles ( CS8 and PU's ) the Govt. disposed of in 1945 , while the war was still on . Lanes typically used a cheap grey paint ( which quickly flaked off ) over the military livery before they passed the vehicles on to various country agents . Each small Morris agency got a half dozen or so CS8's to flog off to essential users. My PU has traces of the grey paint still hanging on . This info is first hand from a chap who's father worked at the local Morris agency ( Whittlesea), and he bought a CS8 there, it was traded in for a new Land Rover in 1952 .

Mike