C15TA wireless install

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Perhaps post-war Netherlands use of this vehicle type could explain the lack of stowage bins and the location of antenna mounts.

Ed, Hanno and I have been discussing the lack of stowage bins for a while. I don't think it's a specific Dutch modification (which was indeed my first thought), as pictures of C15TA's without bins also appear in pictures taken in Malaya, Greece and Vietnam.
It's not just the lack of bins, also rear fenders in the same style as the fronts were fitted, which leads me to believe it's not just some modification done by RCEME or in the field, but more likely a series of C15TA's that was delivered from the factory like this. My thought is that they might have been intended as Ambulance vehicles, but now I can't remember why I came to this "conclusion"

The antenna mount; it seems it has been there for quite a while as it also shows rust pitting under the antenna mount.....if it's wartime or post-war Dutch who knows.