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13-01-2023, 09:49 PM
  Yet another period photograph, this time during wartime with an engineless Dixi. 
The background is far more interesting to me. 
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13-01-2023, 10:03 PM
If only they could talk...
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14-01-2023, 05:29 PM
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.
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14-01-2023, 07:02 PM
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!
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14-01-2023, 07:06 PM
Looks like the vehicle on the right is a mobile engineering workshop.
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#6
14-01-2023, 07:41 PM
(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.
http://lathes.co.uk
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14-01-2023, 08:37 PM
(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?
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