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BSM
Doing some research on mechanical transport used by Britain and the AIF. Has any member (who accesses this post) come across MT images with clearly seen registration/census numbers on vehicles operating in either Salonika or Mesopotamia....please advise...BSM
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QUOTE (BSM @ Jul 16 2009, 06:42 AM) *
Doing some research on mechanical transport used by Britain and the AIF. Has any member (who accesses this post) come across MT images with clearly seen registration/census numbers on vehicles operating in either Salonika or Mesopotamia....please advise...BSM



Yes indeed. An Albion A10 in Salonika number 37196.

Tim (too)
BSM
QUOTE (Great War Truck @ Jul 17 2009, 06:52 AM) *
Yes indeed. An Albion A10 in Salonika number 37196.

Tim (too)


Thanks Tim....had not heard from you for a while!
Was this A10 census number accompanied by a broad arrow and was it positioned on the bonnet in the usual spot? What one is trying to identify is the existence or otherwise of a specific numbering scheme peculiar to Salonika. Most images I have seen of MT in this area do not have visible numbers! As you also know, census numbers came with and without the arrow in Europe plus the fact that quite a number of vehicles were transferred directly from that Theatre to Salonika so the Albion number could well have come from that source. If further examples are presented then it may be possible to identify a pattern if indeed there was one....Rod
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