Can you identify this truck?
Bedford?
Not a Bedford.
would have been too easy ;) from Britain i guess
French?
Not French.
FORD
No.
Quote from: frederick59 on April 01, 2014, 05:36:33 AM
would have been too easy ;) from Britain i guess
Or Italian?
not Italian.
Quote from: frederick59 on April 01, 2014, 05:31:01 AM
Bedford?
I have to correct my previous answer...it is not a Bedford, but it used a Bedford chassis...anyway it's not from Britain. Sorry frederick59...I lock it for you for the next guess.
Up and unlocked.
With due respect, the base vehicle is a WWII vintage Bedford QL series 3 ton 4x4.
That being said, I cannot truly solve the puzzle but I can speculate that it has received a later cabin, body and front bumper assembly. As well, I would bet the original petrol motor has been replaced by some sort of diesel, a Gardner, possibly a Deutz or some such.
I don't like guesses but I will have to guess it was based in the Netherlands.
Bill
That's exactly what I'd figured it was too, but I seemed to have been wrong!
I wondered if it was bodied in Denmark though?
An excellent possibility!!
Danmark probably received the bulk of the British MAAP vehicles after the war ended as well as being able to buy a fair amount of war surplus materiel. And, they were traditionally a stronger market for British vehicles pre-war than, say, the Netherlands or Belgium.
Now that I think of it, and after a bit of digging through my photo archives, The Netherlands got almost exclusively Canadian and American vehicles through MAAP and the huge auto surplus dumps of the day. Some British but not many it seems.
Interesting to see the whole answer when it is given.
Bill
Hmmmmm.........
Is that an oil derrick/tower in the left background??
Middle East countries liked British ex-military vehicles too.
Bill
This Bedford QL base was used in Nederland!
Thank you my Dear Friend!!
Now, what more information is it that you wish??
Bill
I understand that the base you have identified has been used to realize a prototype, and that prototype was than developed to become another truck...which one?
Was the truck later on produced in the Netherlands?
Yes.
Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek' (became DAF in 1948)?
Testbed for the A30 ?
Not DAF (more obscure), and not A30.
Van Twist?
Not Van Twist.
Hogra?
Ten Cate ?
Is this the same make and model? The webpage is in Dutch and does not offer a translation, so I'll have to use some common sense and my schoolboy German.
Delete the above. It's a Bedford!
Quote from: pguillem on July 23, 2014, 10:14:22 AM
Ten Cate ?
This is the correct answer...this truck is said to be the first prototype of Ten Cate! Another point for pguillem!