On a Normandy beach...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
I do not think the body on the Humber in the photo is the same as fitted on the MCC C4 or CS8. It looks narrower. The BBC had some of the Humber 4x4 as recording vans and I recollect seeing a photo of one somewhere (maybe in W&T). It is definitely not an ambulance as that had double doors at the rear.

Richard, see BBC War Reporting Equipment 1944/5 - Recording Trucks for some pictures of the BBC recording vans. These were converted ambulances, with double rear doors indeed. But it is an an entirely different body style (compare with pic below).

Apparently the Humber in question is some sort of cobbled-up vehicle, the question is whether it is a 'genuine' (war-time) modification to fit some military purpose, or not.

Hanno