Feb 5, 2022 · Interior view of the MO truck, complete with bunk medicine cabinet, and work table. A Marmon Herrington Truck. These 6 ton 6x6 trucks were standard cargo trucks used by Commonwealth forces at the beginning of hostilities.

Medical Staff Truck (Chevy 15cwt) - LRDG Headquarters maintained a single truck to be used as a field ambulance car by medical officer "Doc" Lawson. The first truck used for this purpose was a 1311 Chevrolet, with a very improvised set of medical equipment in …

Feb 5, 2022 · Some vehicles, such as the MO (Medical Officer's) truck were modified to fill its specific job. Survey vehicles were often patrol vehicles carrying extra kit for cartography and surveying but would otherwise be the same as the standard patrol vehicles.

The Ford 30 cwt are replaced by the Chevrolet 1533X2 30cwt as the standard LRDG patrol vehicles. An additional truck is added to each patrol which is armed with a 20mm Breda AA/AT gun. This replaces the earlier 37mm Bofors and ends the …

This book explains the detail of all the vehicles of the LRDG, as well as their modifications, driving techniques, and special kit for surviving behind enemy lines in one of the most hostile environments on earth.

Besides conducting basic patrols, some trucks acted as fittter's vehicles, "heavy" patrol vehicles, light artillery vehicles (including acting in the anti-tank role - the "scorpion's tail"), medical orderlies' vehicles and wireless/communications vehicles.

Mar 3, 2022 · Carius recently posted photos of an absolutely fantastic LRDG 30 cwt truck model. It has, like many LRDG models (and 1:1 scale post war copies) a couple of 44 gallon petrol drums in the cargo. As I don't want to spoil Carius's thread I've started this separate thread.

Oct 9, 2023 · Also, there was a Medical Staff truck, usually occupied by "Doc" Lawson. This HQ vehicle could go on missions but would not go on the actual raid. It would hide away at the rendezvous point, often with a resupply vehicle. Then returning raiders could avail themselves of better medical care.

All LRDG vehicles can be grouped in three basic categories: pilot vehicles (Ford 01, Chevy 1311 15cwt and later Willy's Jeeps), which were lighter and faster than standard patrol cars, patrol vehicles (Chevy WB, Ford F30 and Chevy 1533 30cwt) which were often equipped for special tasks like carrying medical supplies or light artillery, and ...

LRDG in February 1941, ‘crawled 200 miles through sand waves’ in rickety old trucks that even a rag-and-bone man would have thought twice about climbing aboard! Just as the deeds of Lawrence of Arabia in World War I were immortalized in the inter-war years, so the LRDG became a byword for derring-do in the 1950s and 1960s.