Solved TGF-385: Ten Cate prototype.

targhediferro · April 01, 2014, 03:17:56 AM

Can you identify this truck?

frederick59 · April 01, 2014, 05:31:01 AM

Bedford?

targhediferro · April 01, 2014, 05:32:21 AM

Not a Bedford.

frederick59 · April 01, 2014, 05:36:33 AM

would have been too easy ;) from Britain i guess

Majeko · April 11, 2014, 07:06:36 PM

French?

targhediferro · April 12, 2014, 02:02:12 AM

Not French.

shamrock · April 12, 2014, 03:32:35 AM

FORD

targhediferro · April 12, 2014, 06:34:15 AM

No.

D-type · April 16, 2014, 07:16:05 PM

Quote from: frederick59 on April 01, 2014, 05:36:33 AM
would have been too easy ;) from Britain i guess

Or Italian?

targhediferro · April 17, 2014, 04:53:10 AM

not Italian.

targhediferro · April 17, 2014, 04:57:43 AM

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.

targhediferro · May 12, 2014, 10:24:05 AM

Up and unlocked.

Bill Murray · May 12, 2014, 10:40:11 AM

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 As well, I would bet the original petrol motor has been replaced by some sort of diesel, a Gardner, possibly a Deutz or some such.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

Carnut · May 12, 2014, 11:20:26 AM

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?

Bill Murray · May 12, 2014, 11:36:22 AM

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

Bill Murray · May 12, 2014, 12:56:39 PM

Hmmmmm.........

Is that an oil derrick/tower in the left background??

Middle East countries liked British ex-military vehicles too.

Bill

targhediferro · May 12, 2014, 04:05:04 PM

This Bedford QL base was used in Nederland!

Bill Murray · May 12, 2014, 04:19:18 PM

Thank you my Dear Friend!!

Now, what more information is it that you wish??

Bill

targhediferro · May 12, 2014, 05:24:23 PM

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?

Craig Gillingham · July 22, 2014, 09:10:09 PM

Was the truck later on produced in the Netherlands?

targhediferro · July 23, 2014, 12:44:42 AM

Yes.

4popoid · July 23, 2014, 02:15:14 AM

Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek' (became DAF in 1948)?

nicanary · July 23, 2014, 06:13:38 AM

Testbed for the A30 ?

targhediferro · July 23, 2014, 06:48:49 AM

Not DAF (more obscure), and not A30.

Wendax · July 23, 2014, 07:07:07 AM

Van Twist?

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Solved TGF-385: Ten Cate prototype.