Workshop Trucks

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Noel Burgess
Richard
I believe that the narrow tail gate with integral steps was the norm on British war time bodies (6x4 & 4x4).

I intended to ask why those that I posted did not have this feature - which I would have expected them to have

Noel,

By coincidence, Richard Hughes and I have been discussing this tonight.

The narrow tailgate was only on workshop bodies. The two photos with full width drop tailboards that you refered to on an earlier message are not workshop bodies of this pattern, the first was an Albion 4x4 and appeared to have a normal GS body, the other was a similar body to the breakdown gantry, but was a Royal Engineers workshop, the gantry was for lifting some of the equipment out, in order to operate them.