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16-05-08, 20:10
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Mystery lorry: Photo A
This lorry has a wooden body with a van - type canopy. I don't think it's an Austin.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry1.jpg http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry3.jpg Last edited by David_Hayward (RIP); 16-05-08 at 20:27. 
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16-05-08, 20:12
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Austin
This is an unusal Austin K series...a K2? Note it's a cab with wooden body.
http://www.btinternet.com/~gmhistorian/lorry2.jpg
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16-05-08, 20:21
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Answers..
..on a postcard please!
As regards "T.C.M.T." it appears to mean therefore "TRAINING CENTRE, MOTOR TRANSPORT", which must have been the ATS showcase depot in Camberley, Surrey (there was later one in Edinburgh) which Princess Elizabeth trained at. However one source suggests that it was the MTTC, for "Motor Transport Training Centre". That makes more sense but the RASC-style plates do have "T.C.M.T." quite clearly. Radek, I have now got the high resolution images of the Austins on a CD. There is one more of a 10hp Tilly being painted (1942?) and another with the front end of one/rear of another 10hp circa 1940. They are of excellent quality if you want to order copies direct...you can have prints or on a CD (which is better as you can print yourself). Last edited by David_Hayward (RIP); 16-05-08 at 20:33.
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16-05-08, 23:11
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David, Number on bonnet looks like 151156, or thereabouts, cannot see a prefix letter though. This would put it in a group of impressed vehicles, which fits as it has the civilian pattern radiator grille. Cannot see length of truck but probably a K2
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Richard 1943 Bedford QLD lorry - 1941 BSA WM20 m/cycle - 1943 Daimler Scout Car Mk2 Member of MVT, IMPS, MVG of NSW, KVE and AMVCS KVE President & KVE News Editor
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16-05-08, 23:14
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A Morris ambulance
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Richard 1943 Bedford QLD lorry - 1941 BSA WM20 m/cycle - 1943 Daimler Scout Car Mk2 Member of MVT, IMPS, MVG of NSW, KVE and AMVCS KVE President & KVE News Editor
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17-05-08, 10:57
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Rare bird!
That's a rare bird...a MCC Ambulance! I agree that the rad looks like a MCC one. THANKS.
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17-05-08, 13:04
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David, There are one or two in preservation..or where. Pretty sure it was not MCC though, as it was a car derivitive and badged as just Morris.
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17-05-08, 18:56
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Morris Ambulance
V.3707 then, Morris ambulance. Ta!
Can anyone please answer this quandry: Quote:
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17-05-08, 21:35
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The "M" stands for Mechanical.........not Motor
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Richard 1943 Bedford QLD lorry - 1941 BSA WM20 m/cycle - 1943 Daimler Scout Car Mk2 Member of MVT, IMPS, MVG of NSW, KVE and AMVCS KVE President & KVE News Editor
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17-05-08, 23:28
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Tcmt
So TRAINING CENTRE MECHANICAL TRANSPORT then? Interesting to read how memories (online) have been corrupted over time. One source has it that it was No 1 Motor Transport Company, No.1 Mechanical Transport Training Centre, Camberley and it seems that this was correct (in a former boys' prep school). The plates therefore presumably represent "TRANSPORT COMPANY, MECHANICAL TRANSPORT"?
Last edited by David_Hayward (RIP); 17-05-08 at 23:57.
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