Thank you for the information gentlemen.
I had assumed it was most likely to be a welding truck, but the wording in the REME document namely Machinery, type "K light" was different to the normal nomenclature.
I am in the process of researching what vehicles would have be in a Type "C" REME LAD supporting a Reconnaissance Corps Regiment during WW2. With the above confirmation the vehicles would have consisted of 2 Motor Cycles, one Truck 15cwt 4X4 Armoured Personnel (White Scout Car but replaced by Half-Track during the NW Europe Campaign), one 15cwt FFW, one 3 ton 4X4 (binned), one Tractor 6X4 Breakdown Heavy, and one 71/2 ton Recovery Trailer. A total of 25 Personal.
This is obviously totaly inadequete to provide all the support required by a Recce Regiment, but many people forget that when REME was first formed, many unit badged tradesmen engaged in first line repair were not transfered over untill post-war, to reduce the amount of disruption. There were at least two Breakdown Vehicles operated by Recce badged soldiers in the regiment.
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