Royal Navy vehicles

[Larry Hayward]

With regard to the Royal Navy during WW2 they had the least number of vehicles of the three Services. Mostly the RN used their vehicles around the ports from which they operated. But if you include the vehicles used by the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines the number of types increase considerably.

I know that the RN used Scammell MH6 three wheeelers and AEC Matadors, Bedford OXD and OY for moving stores around harbour installations and a few Austin Tilly types and Commer Q15 vans for lighter work. No doubt the RN got a few Jeeps but mostly they were not issued with 4x4s.

The FAA in the UK had mostly the identical vehicles that you would have found on an RAF base at the time.

However Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONAB) did need suitable vehicles for active service and it would seem that they got similar equipment to the RAF's Mobile Units that went to NW Europe with the 2nd TAF.