Earliest known British C30S

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Tony, well spotted! I have a number-blindness problem at times and read say '08440' as '084440'. I have corrected the posting above and swapped C60L with C-GT in the production series.

It was in fact quite common for the former Gun Tractors to be registered as 'tractors' or 'agricultural tractors' because the real thing was unobtainable, and also there was a winch that could be used to tow the plough or whatever across the field.

As a result of the civilian regos that I am still wading through, I know that a 2-pounder Portee, although possibly converted by then to a G/S truck, was demobbed and sold on immediately post-war: Serial # 1844031840 ENGINE NUMBER XR3,742,962 and former WD # L459477! You never know with these old records...sometimes the census number is quoted as in this case, and sometimes just a corrupted serial or engine number.