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Hi guys, hope everyone's had a good new year! Have a question, and this is the best place I can think of to ask it! Would like some help identifying what the truck in the folling pics used to be - all I know is that it's around 1930's-1940 vintage - and that there's not much left at all! The only markings of any description was a plate on the motor, with Tappet Clearences stamped on it..     Either 21 or 71thousand miles on it - couldn't quite make it out.. Dials are fuel - temp - speedo & ammeter.. I didn't take any tools, so don't know if it'l run  It's a 6 cylinder - the distributor cap is in remarkably good nick - I've used worse before!  |
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Unseen Jersey---------------- Delica Super Exceed 2.8 Delica Super Exceed 3.0v6 "Project Bully" e36 M3 e36 318iT e36 328iT Always looking for the next project, and somewhere to put it!
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wow what a find, the instrument binacle looks very similar to a Bedford design
is it on Jersey?
with the WW2 history of Jersey it could be a very interesting vehicle.
any clues to the country of manufactuer? (other than its right hand drive)
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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Has it been bombed or damaged in someway, maybe in a fire? Looks pretty shot up, even taking into account the tests of time  |
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Si
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It was driven/parked in one of our underground tunnels in 1946 and effectively sealed in - they walled a section off around it.. I think the combination of 60 years + damp rock dripping on it + either a rockfall and/or people climbing on it & it collapsing, have done for the middle sections No clues as to what it could've been, the only kind of identifying mark was the plate with the tappet clearences on the side of the motor, but even then no make or anything..   |
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i wonder if it could be an AEC Matador or Militant pics here www.aecmilitant.co.uk/index2.htmlclick on the downloads page, first document shows similar body size and design |
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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I was going to suggest an AEC too.
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Now I'm intrigued....firstly I don't think it's an AEC....look at the width of the tyres, she was only a light duty truck with a 6-cyl sidevalve petrol lump. Looking at the grille it looks like something from one of the smaller truck makers around at the time, possibly a Thornycroft or a Vulcan or something.
There's a possibility also that it was cut up to stop the Germans using it....somebody would have just chopped the chassis in half with a gas axe, rendering it useless.
Whatevver it is though it's a great find, and has probably got an interesting story to tell!
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Si
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The closest me & my mate have got, he's found this:  Albeit without the Van body, just with a flatbed back No clue as to a name yet tho! |
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theres a similar truck to the aec ive seen in ww2 pics. for the life of me i cant remember becasue i always looked more at the bikes/cars/planes...
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What was it you wanted for it exactly, a bent MOT?
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Jon, it's in Jersey, so doesn't need an MOT ;D |
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Funny how (what I can see of) the tyres don't look too bad!
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I think that's a Commer Q2 with a modified dash. My mate had one for a while, it was used by the RAF as a recovery vehicle on airfields, towing a 50ft Queen Mary trailer (he had one of those as well!).
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^^^^ Give that man an extra gold star^^^^  See that small bar for the starting handle in the centre of the bumper?? There's one on the wreck as well. It's a Commer Superpoise from the mid-late 1930's. Over 20,000 were supplied to the armed forces during WW2. |
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Last Edit: Jan 7, 2007 0:09:20 GMT by briandamaged
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 I just found this pic online, and I think it's th eone my mate had as there are very few around. The roof looks familiar too, I made it! |
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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