10-05-2020, 03:45 PM
On another tack about 'military vehicles' does anyone have any knowledge of the MV registration (I think Middlesex?) being
part-allocated to the Armed Services for use on staff cars and the like? My reason for asking is that I once had a very late (January 1939 Ruby which was registered MV something or other, which had a cast-iron 'nose piece' for the starting handle. A distant memory stirs about this from The Automobile "comments section many years ago. It was thought that the cast-iron item was to allow for unsympathetic and muscular squaddies overdoing things!
part-allocated to the Armed Services for use on staff cars and the like? My reason for asking is that I once had a very late (January 1939 Ruby which was registered MV something or other, which had a cast-iron 'nose piece' for the starting handle. A distant memory stirs about this from The Automobile "comments section many years ago. It was thought that the cast-iron item was to allow for unsympathetic and muscular squaddies overdoing things!
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