28-09-2022, 05:28 PM
(28-09-2022, 03:34 PM)SJT Wrote: Thanks mine does have a scuttle tank which I thought was a bit odd and it appears to have been re-regestered however due to a lot of welding there does not appear to be any numbers on tunnel etc. I will try to take a photo but not great with computers .
Stephen.
That certainly sounds like it's a military tourer; I don't think the lack of stamping on the transmission tunnel matters too much, as that would have just been a factory body number which didn't relate to the government contract.
Are there any other 'puzzling' aspects; for instance there should be a plate recording the relevant government requisition - that may be missing, but are there a set of unidentified holes on the dashboard or scuttle?
You say the car has been re-register, do you know what the original number was? All vehicles produced to government contracts were issued with number sequences that were not in the normal public sequences.
Some requisitions required supplementary 24 volt installations - are there any unexplained holes in the dashboard, or evidence of non-standard battery housings?