1940 location recognised?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by David_Hayward


I would have imagined that if this was a UK scene from October 1940 then it was near Dagenham IF the Wagons are 91A or E91A models as assembled at Dagengham. If they are C11AD or C11AS Wagons and 1941 Models then they were assembled in the new CMD in Slough, and this photo dates from December 1940 onwards. The location would then be either the Candian compound adjacent to the Slough Trading Estate or perhaps at Bordon...
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Are those Wagons 1941 Models? Others may have keener eyes for the radiator grilles than I have.

David, it's difficult to see, but checking against the illustrations on the Ford Flathead Model Identification Chart, I'd say these are 1940 (or 1939) model year front ends.
Also compare with the picture of the 1940 Ford 79A Standard Station Wagon shown below (courtesy of Jon Carr Farrelly). This is one of a number of Wagons acquired for "domestic use". (As far as I can tell these were civilian Wagons with left-hand drive, the only thing military about them was the camouflage scheme.) This endorses your assumption that the FAT must have been flying around domestic grounds.