Welfare Vehicles

[Lynn Eades]

Rick, you judge it. Compare the front guard / fender.
There are two fair haired girls in the photo. The taller one being my mother, the one on the left, her sister Joan.
The "truck" re visited the native schools on return.
Its a shame the sign writing didn't follow the original.

Can someone please turn the photos the right way up? Edit. Thank you Rob for turning them around in Post#157. The School Is the Okauia native school, on Douglas road out of Matamata. The number plate starts of with "Govt" This was fine for the first 9999 plates.

[Tony Smith]

WW1 style. Vehicle donated by the Hon. Mrs Hoares.

[welbike]

Anyone know what van this is? bike is a Norton 16H, may be taken just postwar, Norwegian troops, looking at the lettering on the side of the van.

Cheers,

Lex

[rob love]

For Lynn, and everyone trying to see them, I have fixed his photos.

[dcrfan]

How about this colour photo taken from a slide of an Fordson NAAFI vehicle. The slides were taken by Brian Darrah in Cyprus in late 1950s. He was a member of the RNZAF Vampire squadron posted there.

31631AFE-0AB3-4EB2-9F9D-B9330FCC5246 by tankienz, on Flickr

His other colour slides showing mainly aircraft are at https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/3...oloured-slides It is just possible to make out the side of a refueller painted sand colour in one photo but i can't see enough to hazard a guess of the vehicle type.

[Grant Bowker]

Based in the little of the refueller seen in the photo, my first thought is the AEC 6x6 with cab looking like that fitted to the Matador. Model 0854 or 0856 chassis - I don't know enough about their numbering system to say...

[Matthew P]

Here's a postcard I just picked up off eBay. Barking Engineering was a shop near London that built mobile canteens for the British Salvation Army. From the looks of things, this canteen is probably circa 1940?

Matt