Dunkirk 1940

[Mike Costigan]

There seems to have been a fair bit of scavenging of parts from all these vehicles. Could the photo be dated post war perhaps?

I believe both photos are of German origin and date from immediately after the evacuation; the first actually shows a dead British soldier in the foreground which I cropped out as being irrelevant to the topic.
My grandfather was with the Expeditionary Forces and described how the roads in to Dunkirk were littered with abandoned vehicles, including 'dozens' of Austin Sevens, and one of his duties was to punch a screwdriver through petrol tanks, radiators and batteries, just as Rick F suggests.