Post your unidintified vehicle photos here.

[Akira Takiguchi]

Also this one - a bit strange magenta-ish color is due to the camera's fault (otherwise exceptional SIGMA DP1 sometimes red hue is interpreted incorrectly), should have taken another shot.

[SIS 5]

Sorry, I was wrong.

Regards

Bert

[Larrister]

Hi

Can someone please ID the tanker truck for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Larry

[Bill Murray]

Hi Larry:

I am quite sure it is a British Bedford either a WTL 3 tonner or more likely a WS 2 tonner of about 1936.

When I can, I will post a photo.
Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

Thanks very much. Is it a fuel or water tanker?

Cheers
Larry

[Bill Murray]

Hi Larry:

Not sure really. As there are no warning signs one could possibly eliminate a fuel/gasoline tanker. That would leave maybe water or oil as a load.

Too bad we cannot see the back end to see if it has pumps/hoses etc.

It looks to me to be a civvie vehicle, some sort of municipal truck.

Bill

[Larrister]

Thanks Bill.

[jmehner]

Since the tank has what looks like a vent on the covers (amongst other hardware), it is unlikely to be a watertanker, which usually have a simple cover with just some kind of locking mechanism.

Cheers,

jm

[Larrister]

Thanks jm.

The two men standing in front are wearing the same shirts and caps with some sort of emblem on them. If this is not a military photo then it may be a company uniform. An English made truck but was the photo taken in England or somewhere else?

Cheers
Larry

[Bill Murray]

Hi all:

JM's comments made me take a further look into the dark archives.

While I do not have a definitive answer, some more clues.

1. I have two fairly small picture books on the history of Bedford trucks and in viewing all the photos of the era, 1930's, I do not see one photo with a mirror on the left side when the vehicle is being used in the UK.

The uniform style looks British to me but that was a style also popular on the Continent. For what it is worth, Bedfords were marketed in all of the Scandinavian countries as well as the Low Countries so that may be a part of the answer.

2. JM's comments also led me to look at all the fuel truck photos I could find and he may be correct in that most of them of that era had similar vents/filling caps. Not exactly the same but similar. As well most had what look like assist handles or bars like Larry's photo.

Anyway, I post here a photo of another later Bedford, an ML, with a tanker body and on the next page one of the earlier WLT trucks as a cargo carrier.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

The second, earlier vehicle.

Both photos from "The Kaleidoscope of Bedford & Vauxhall Military Vehicles" by me dear friend Bart Vanderveen.
Bill

[SIS 5]

Hi Bill, hi all,

Tim posted a pic of a truck on 20th of April this year. Now my question. Could it be an Austrian Fross-Büssing truck. I only have the information, that Fross-Büssing produced MAN-trucks in licence (MAN E 3000 and MAN F 5), but they also produced their own trucks. I´ve read about two types: II FB 5 and 4000.
Does anybody have some more information and maybe pics of Fross-Büssing trucks?

Regards

Bert

[jmark]

Anyone care to identify this truck? Photo taken September 1942.

Thanks!
Jason

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[Bill Murray]

Hi Jason:

Your truck is an Opel Blitz 1 tonner. Bit of a rare bird as I think I remember only a bit over 5,000 were used by the German forces.

I am just off to a Doctor appointment but I will try to ID the trailer when I get back home.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Hi Jason:

Here is a "factory shot" of your Opel.
I am still looking for the proper ID of the trailer.
Bill