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Interesting background. - Robert Foreman - 13-01-2023
Yet another period photograph, this time during wartime with an engineless Dixi.
The background is far more interesting to me.
The background is far more interesting to me.
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RE: Interesting background. - Nick Salmon - 13-01-2023
If only they could talk...
RE: Interesting background. - LesGammon - 14-01-2023
Probably pre Hitler,before 1933 as the Dixi would suggest. The vehicle behind is a sort of armoured car of the type fudged during the Treaty of Versailles restrictions.
RH number plate could be Reich Wehr.
RE: Interesting background. - David.H - 14-01-2023
They did cover Dixi/Sevens with a plywood skin and pretend they were tanks for training...
This Dixi looks like a pick up... someone may identify the "armoured car from that front wheel!
RE: Interesting background. - Henry Harris - 14-01-2023
Looks like the vehicle on the right is a mobile engineering workshop.
RE: Interesting background. - Tony Griffiths - 14-01-2023
(14-01-2023, 07:06 PM)Henry Harris Wrote: Looks like the vehicle on the right is a mobile engineering workshop.
I agree. The photograph is very low resolution but, playing about in Photoshop, the machine to the rear of the truck does look like a lathe. Perhaps that's why the Dixi has just called in for a quick engine rebuild.
RE: Interesting background. - Robert Foreman - 14-01-2023
(14-01-2023, 07:06 PM)Henry Harris Wrote: Looks like the vehicle on the right is a mobile engineering workshop.
Well done Henry that's why I said the background is of more interest to me.
The photograph is only 2½"x3½" but very enigmatic. Is the chap with the white tunic a chef perchance?