"Indian Pattern odd job"

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Nice find. I recall you posted the last picture in the since-lost Indian Pattern FAT thread.

I think I found the reasoning about these Odd Jobs - see http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...564#post203564

[Hanno Spoelstra]

This picture shows the rear body of an Indian pattern FAT with makeshift cab (note angular mudguard and cab), again in French Indochina:

"The ambushes nourished a permanent feeling of insecurity, immobilizing scores of troops in the sector, undermining the morale by their murderous repetition and permitting the recuperation of weapons and material (Photo CMIDOM)". From: René Bail and Jean-Pierre Bernier, Indochine 1945-1954. 1.La Reconquête. Editions Heimdal, p.42.
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Source: http://www.mapleleafup.nl/cmpvehicles/fat_i_pat.html

PS: I have moved some pictures of this type of truck I posted in Another Indian Pattern odd job: "C291QH 4x4 FAT for Royal Engineers" to this thread.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Dutch troops on Bali, 1948.

Slightly better version of one of the above pictures.

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