Can somebody tell me what vehicle this is ???

[Mancunian airman]

I am curious as to what type of vehicle this is in the front and possibly the No2 ??

I thinks its a Dennis but I cant be sure 100%

Thought it might make a nice convoy of sorts for an old Halifax I have in the stash ??

 

 

Many thanks

Ian

[Aeronut]

I hope there were no low bridges on route and looking at the height of that centre section on the first Queen Mary any telephone lines would have been in danger as well.

[EwenS]

Judging by the shape of the radiator (and how it extends below the leading edge of the front mudguards with what appears to be a starting handle sticking out of it at the bottom) and the doors that appear hinged at the "A" pillar, I think it is probably a Leyland Lynx Tractor Unit. Dennis vehicles of the period seem to have had a panel with a quarterlight between the door and the bonnet and a radiator that finished in line with the edge of the front mudguards.

Here is a couple of links. See what you think.

 

http://www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com/image-archives/product/leyland-lynx-tractor-unitdemonstratorl023415/

http://www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com/image-archives/product/leyland-lynx-dz-tractor-unitlondon-co-operative-societyl022296q/

http://www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com/image-archives/product/leyland-lynx-dz2-caledonian-transport-motor-co-ltd-londonl023723a/

 

These all date to the immediate pre war period so would fit with hauling bits of Halifax around.

 

The third vehicle is a Bedford OXC hauling a Queen Mary trailer as in the Airfix RAF Recovery Set.

[Graham Boak]

It looks like those photos of Lynx to me, but I was quite prepared to believe it was Dennis...  The photo dates to late 1941, at the earliest, as that's a Mk.II series 1 Halifax.  If this is a HP-built machine then presumably it'll be Cricklewood, but I've a feeling I've seen the photo described as the delivery of the first aircraft from a shadow factory.  This would explain the crowd of onlookers.  It doesn't look like any part of English Electric's Strand Road site that I recognise, but I only saw that much later.  It may be Rootes, in 1942, or the London Passenger Transport Board also in early 1942, but I suspect the Fairey factory at Stockport didn't deliver their first until later (i.e. probably no nose or dorsal turrets).  The building look to be fairly well established rather than recently built under the shadow factory programme, so is this London?  Is it possible that the lorry's registration will help?

[Hardcastle]

Maybe a Scammel LA15/20 tractor unit?

 

Available from Langley models website

[Mancunian airman]

 

Thanks for those that responded 

 

EwenS

I found this history if you look down the page(s)

 

http://www.levyboy.com/aviation.htm

 

I discovered it was a Leyland Lynx and set about trying to find a model 

 

http://www.roadtransportimages.com/search-results?isc=1&searchword=Military &ordering=xf3

 

It was under the cat. of 'Military' but I cannot see it on their page anymore ?

Ian

[stevehnz]

This one is the only one that comes up with a lynx search.

Steve.

Edited April 2, 2018 by stevehnz

[EwenS]

Glad to have been of help.

Thaks for the link to the Fairey history page. I find our wartime industrial heritage fascinating and your about the Fairey works adds to that knowledge base.  When you look at Google Maps you realise so much has disappeared under housing estates and shopping centres. Not necessarily a bad thing given how run down the buildings had become (not to mention the industries that operated out of them).

[Mike Starmer]

Leyland Lynx is available from Bull models, 1/76  with either early open cab or later had cab.  Kit No.20 GS body.  He does mail order, 18 Heronden Viwew, Eastry Kent CT13 0EZ.  He specialies in early British vehicles and artillery too plus figures.