Morris C8 "Water tank???", genuine WW2 body or post-war?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Here are two pictures of the subject C8 after restoration:

http://www.military-vehicle-photos.c...number1496.asp
http://www.military-vehicle-photos.c...number1497.asp

Personally I think it is a pity they left it in it's non-original configuration, museum visitors are now lead to believe these type of trucks were driving around in WW2.

H.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Personally I think it is a pity they left it in it's non-original configuration, museum visitors are now lead to believe these type of trucks were driving around in WW2.

H.

Yes Hanno, it does have a rat rod look to it . These 1944 produced C8 GS trucks have survived in relatively large numbers . But only one or two contracts were built . They seem to turn up for sale regularly, unless the same trucks change owners often ! Maybe they were not disposed of until the 1950's , hence more survived . Mike

PS there are two or three over here ,in QLD , maybe late WW2 when they arrived here .

[Mike K]

This is the Queensland C8 ..it was for sale years ago .. the front wings are home made things and the water tank is off a CS8 or Beford I think . The asking price years ago was around 20K - for that money back then , you could fly to the UK and import something much better .MIKE

[Keith Brooker]

The 1944 Morris 4x4 were not built until late 44 and most did not enter the war until the very end, most photos of them are of them in Korea and after, my 1944 Morris came out of service in 1957.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Personally I think it is a pity they left it in it's non-original configuration, museum visitors are now lead to believe these type of trucks were driving around in WW2.

Couldn't agree more. It would have been easy enough to build a GS body for it, but I understand that the museum staff at the time bought this truck in particular because of it's water tank....and probably didn't realise the body is post-war. The truck now has "FUEL" painted in yellow on the side of the tank

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

but I understand that the museum staff at the time bought this truck in particular because of it's water tank....and probably didn't realise the body is post-war. The truck now has "FUEL" painted in yellow on the side of the tank

They can loan my copy of Vanderveen's Historic Military Vehicles Directory anytime. Help is just a forum message, e-mail or phone call away . . .

[Hanno Spoelstra]

And it is back up for sale as "very rare and very collectable":

https://www.milweb.net/webvert/a4355/97343