Commer Q2: Truck, 15-cwt, 4x2, Van

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Found on Facebook, a colourised photo of a Commer Q2 15-cwt Van.

That same colorised facebook picture found it's way to multiple forums, which led to more pictures being posted in reply.

Javier de Luelmo posted this picture on the missing-lynx forum of a Q2 van in the desert, but in German hands.
No idea of the original source, but picture posted here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/miss...57077#p1757077

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Javier de Luelmo posted this picture on the missing-lynx forum of a Q2 van in the desert, but in German hands.

Thanks Alex, good to see another Q2 Van in North Africa.

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Caption: “Pilots of 249 Squadron at North Weald, late 1940. Richard Wynn, Tom Neil, Robert Barton, Patrick Wells, James Crossey, Jack Mills, Albert Lewis, George Barclay, George Palliser, S "Woolly" Woolmer and Anthony Thompson.”

I traced back this photo via https://www.heritage-print.com/fligh...-14995346.html as being a photo from Air of Glory: A Wartime Scrapbook, by Cecil Beaton and published by His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1941

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