Fordson WOT2 15cwt truck

[Keith Brooker]

Captured wot 2 truck. Photo from my collection

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Keith Brooker

Captured wot 2 truck. Photo from my collection

Great pic showing details of the cab. Is that a battery between the seats ? Looks like it is a D model . I recently found a workshop manual for the WOT2 trucks.

The Vokes concertina air filter: Hughes yard at Coburg in Melbourne had a large pile of these filters, all of them were rusted but repairable - I believe they were scrapped during a cleanup.

[Mike K]

Keith's pic . Apparently it is a C model . Should have spotted the drop side body.

I spotted the shiny instrument bezels. Driver's seat is from a Bedford MW maybe ?

[Mike K]

I have only seen one or two pics of these WOT2 trucks in army wartime use within Australia. The British W.D. type trucks must have been issued on a limited basis to certain Aust. army units training in Aust., and the newspaper article indicates some of the trucks were considered to be released for essential civilian use as early as 1944.

[Mike K]

Not RAAF but probably RAF

Description
HERTOGENBOSCH, NETHERLANDS. 1945-05. SERGEANT TOM TUCKER PERFORMS SOME REPAIRS ON A RAAF TRUCK WATCHED BY TWO LOCAL BOYS. HE WAS THE DRIVER, AND 430081 FLIGHT SERGEANT G. W. BURKE THE NAVIGATOR, FOR SYD STEVENS, YMCA REPRESENTATIVE, WHILE HE TRAVELLED THROUGH BELGIUM SEARCHING FOR PRISONERS OF WAR. (DONOR G. BURKE)

[Keith Brooker]

Original photo from my collection. Post war