ww2 British Vehicle Markings

Keith
Many tks for sharing your photos. Could you supply any information on the following ones? Eg Unit, location, date?

1) Truck bearing the marking [2298] and GHQ Middle East.
2) Truck bearing the marking [892]. This seems to be mixed up with the vehicle serial number.
3) Truck bearing the marking [20], possibly on AA Command background?
4) Truck bearing the marking [17] with an Army bar. (An Area or Sub Area?)

I have a copy of Vehicle Markings 1943 with Amendment 1 (of March 1944) in case your copy is unmodified. This amendment is important as it seems to be the first mention of the diagonal white bars on the AoS signs of GHQ/Command and L of C Tps.

Dave

 

Hi Dave i don`t have any amendments just the 8 page booklets.
i. ?
2 ?
3) Truck bearing the marking [20], possibly on AA Command background? 3 Corps. 54 Light AA Regiment RA or 1 Corps. 52 Light AA Regiment RA. BEF 1940 Dunkirk , In the sea/beach.
4) Truck bearing the marking [17] with an Army bar. (An Area or Sub Area?) 98 Army Field Regiment RA. BEF 1940

 

Keith

Pity about 1 & 2, but tks for 3 & 4........I tend to forget about the early and 'different' BEF markings!

The amendments that I have are typed on scraps of paper, and stuck in the original 1943 booklet........I will contact you......

Dave

 

Thanks Dave

 

A few more from my collection.
Keith

 

I'm not sure but wonder if the below was amendment No.2.

 

Found this in one of my bookcases, one more manual Notes for Inspectors of B Vehicles Aug 1945, it lists all veh info and painting the Bridge sign and speed limit for that veh. Has 70+ pages.
Keith

 

That's a rare shot of the Carrier marked to 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. They had only arrived with the BEF during late April and their schedules don't appear in the 11th April lists...It's likely to be the intermediate battalion of the junior brigade...5th Manchesters, I suspect.

 

Tyre pressure markings, from the 1945 manual.

 

Just thought i would add this Camouflage 1941. Painting of Mechanical Transport. Pamphlet from my collection.
Keith

 

Gary

Yes, I think you are right about Vehicle Markings 1943 Amendment 2. HQ Eighth Army circulated this amendment on 31st March 1945.

I attach the ACI. Unfortunately I have no date other than the second half of 1944.

Also attached is ACI 1557 of 1943 which refers to the original pamphlet.

Dave

 

And this is Amendment 1 of Vehicle Markings 1943.

 

Thanks very much for that Dave (dml34). I'm trying to attach crops of the two supplements, found in WO32/11617. I've sent an email to someone I know is well versed in such things to see if the CMP change was amendment No.2. If so I think we've pulled together the Oct43 booklet in full...

 

Rear end of a Humber Staff car.
Keith

 

Front of Humber Staff car with German pow.. Original Photo from my collection.
Keith

 

Hi Keith,

Just wanted to say thank you for all the photos you are posting. Many show insignia I have seen as images in books but that I have not yet seen in photographs. It's a real pleasure to see them!

 

Veh Dock pass for a Military Humber that would have been put on the windscreen.
From my collection.
Keith

 

The German PoW appears to be a lady wearing sunglasses. Could the photograph be evidence of unofficial use of a military vehicle? Perhaps an officer taking his girlfriend to Alexandria for the weekend?

 

I really like ephemera like this, there must have been thousands of these issued, but so few have survived.

 

The pow is the one putting a wheel on the Humber.