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

[Alex van de Wetering]

I remember seeing another British-owned 30cwt Commer Q2 at the Dutch liberation day in 1995; will scan a pic of the truck in question in the next few days (also remember we discussed the truck in another MLU thread)

There should be another closed cab Commer (Q2?) in one of the bigger Australian MV museums; saw it on a DVD, just last week.

Than there is the Q2 tractor with Queen Mary that used to be in Holland a few years ago.....not a COE like the one on Ian Hardy's website, but one WITH a nose....Hanno, you probably know where that one is right now.


Anyway, back to the subject....I haven't seen too much information, nor surviving examples of the 15cwt. I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

This one is the Q2´s smaller brother, the Q15. Hailing from the UK, it nowadays resides in Holland!

Would this be a wartime combo....or is this a post-war rebuild of one of the 15cwt's...fitted with a closed cab from a Q2 or Q4? (can't remember seeing a 15cwt Commer with closed cab before...)

Alex

p.s. On the subject of Commer's.....any 3 ton Q4's surviving anywhere? or only the post-war ones?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Would this be a wartime combo....or is this a post-war rebuild of one of the 15cwt's...fitted with a closed cab from a Q2 or Q4? (can't remember seeing a 15cwt Commer with closed cab before...

Well, have a close look here for a survivor!

Commer Q 15 1940
Untouched 15 cwt, 220 th of 294/V/4335 contract, running, to be restored, w/ builder plates, period parts list & instruction book, French papers, a rare survivor of early years of war. Located in Normandy.
0033 (0)232 583899
Ludovic Meyer
63018.jpg 59dccd07bcbcd_19JUIN2012099.jpg.211984818cad287f0878f1696d57d4da.jpg 59dccd07829e5_19JUIN2012097.jpg.20029f0752d53e847cd6299ec8bf8633.jpg 59dccd07dfc83_19JUIN2012101.jpg.b0af393f0c85495782b5881b6eff5ebe.jpg

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Well, have a close look here for a survivor!

Hi Hanno,
What a find! This is one of 350, the contract was dated 21st May 1942. Described as Q15 Loose Tilt Van for War Office.

[Richard Farrant]

Hanno,
I put the incorrect contract details on my previos post, now corrected. Going by a photocopy of original Rootes wartime contracts list, although the contract was for the WO, I think that the rear number plate might have an RAF number on it .......... or is it a French civilian number?

[Alex van de Wetering]

Wow, very nice! I am glad my presumption of closed cabs on a 15cwt chassis being non-orginal proved to be wrong...what a nice truck.

I think that the rear number plate might have an RAF number on it .......... or is it a French civilian number?

Richard, I think you might be right....does it say "RAF" on the first line of the licence plate? I guess if it was post-war French civilian, a licence plate on the left hand of the truck would be more logical? Although I am not sure if the rules were so strict that people actually had to move the plate from right to left on trucks like these.

@ Hanno....something for Bert? Location sounds good and I am positive you and I could help him pick the truck up

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Richard, I think you might be right....does it say "RAF" on the first line of the licence plate? I guess if it was post-war French civilian, a licence plate on the left hand of the truck would be more logical? Although I am not sure if the rules were so strict that people actually had to move the plate from right to left on trucks like these.

Hi Alex,
Well, I thought it looked like RAF on upper line, no sign of postwar rear lights. I wonder why there is no photo taken from the front?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

That Q15 is back on the market:

http://www.leboncoin.fr/equipement_a...43.htm?ca=11_s

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex,

Would be interesting to see that drawing.

Here´s a 1:76 scale kit of the 15-cwt RAF van: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72213

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Commer Q4 3-ton 4x2 truck in post-war civilian use, ca. 1947, The Netherlands.

Source: http://members.home.nl/rhsluik/wegtransport_twente.htm

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I do remember seeing a 1/76 scale modelling drawing of the truck in question.

Alex,

Could that drawing be this one?

hanno3.jpg

Some more information from modelling magazines or books:

hanno4.jpg Image (2).jpg Image (3).jpg

[Alex van de Wetering]

Hanno,

I think the drawing might have been the bottom left one (page 17)....from a Bellona publication(?)

Alex