19-Set Wooden Transit Chest

[Chris Suslowicz]

They were purely an Italian invention, after the allies re-equipped the Italian army with the Ws19 in 1944. It's a mixture of the AFV and the truck & ground station kit in a wooden box: the set is on Carrier No.1 but fitted with the variometer seating plate No.4 for the truck & round station (usually seen on Carrier No.3) and the aerial rod exits through the hole in the top of the box.

There is a mention of it in Wireless for the Warrior Volume 2, and the kit stayed in service until sometime in the 1960s.

I've only ever seen Canadian Mk.3 sets used in those boxes, some of the later conversions were re-lettered in Italian.

Chris.