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Old 27-05-08, 14:12
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Hanno, The tyres are 11:00x20 from the brand "Barum". Pictures attached.
Excellent! Have tried googling a place that sells them, but no luck yet. Oh well, I need to buy a Big Wheel CMP first. . .

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Old 28-05-08, 10:44
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The Morris looks to be a OFFICE bodied variant ... the roll out canvas awnings and the doorway screens sort of lead me this way . Photos of them are fairly uncommon for some reason .

The OFFICE variant was more common than we think e.g., contract V4152 of 1941 included: 635 OFFICE BODY , 842 GS BODY, 379 WIRELESS and 384 COMPRESSOR with pto .

Why no surviving OFFICE versions around today ?

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Old 28-05-08, 12:31
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Excellent! Have tried googling a place that sells them, but no luck yet. Oh well, I need to buy a Big Wheel CMP first. . .
Hanno, I did the same a while ago, but I didn't have any luck either. Barum seems to have been integrated in Continental tyres and their focus seems to have changed to pessenger car tyres. I wasn't able to find a trace of the tyre-profile as displayed in this thread. It was funny however that I did find some "Mitas" tyres which were offered as Barum, although the image did show "Mitas" written on the side walls; Mitas tyres licence produced in the Czech republic?? Also some other brands, like starmaxx seem to offer tyres with reasonable profile, however none of them resemble the tyres pictures in this thread.

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Old 29-05-08, 20:31
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The Morris looks to be a OFFICE bodied variant ... the roll out canvas awnings and the doorway screens sort of lead me this way . Photos of them are fairly uncommon for some reason .
Here's the first one I'd seen, hence my assumption it was a German conversion.



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Just for interest heres a pic of the Morris office truck with the side penthouses erected
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