Vickers Utility Tractors in the Netherlands East Indies

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Mark W. Tonner
Version in photos: with rear seats

Photo # 1 (Top) - shows a Art Schl VA 601(b) with rear seats folded up carrying mail and Photo # 2 (Bottom) - shows a Art Schl VA 601(b) with rear seats folded down being used has an artillery tractor towing a 5cm PaK38

Mark, it helps enormously as I think you just proved my thesis! Whereas the Belgian types did have fixed sides, some with rear facing seats (see pics here), as far as I can tell the Vickers Utility Tractors in your pictures are the KNIL-type with their typical sideways-facing troop seats (referred to as "rear seats" in your captions):

Source: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/hol/Netherlands.htm

May I ask where you found those pictures you posted?

Thanks,
Hanno