Austin Tilly in Czechoslovak brigade

[hey]

Does anyone have any information about this ?
I need to know the signs about this brigade and what color they were painted the vehicles.

Thanks in advance.

[kovyCZ]

HI,
There is a book aviable from capricorn publishing:
http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op= ... e&sid=6287
you can find a lot info about this vehicle plus some Czech colour schemes.

[hey]

Thanks for your reply but i have this book (and another one from this company).
In this book (page 3) show a Tilly in Czechoslovak Brigade as a mobile canteen and it is the only picture (and information) that i have about this vehicle.
The colour should be green but the front bumper looks like other colour.
The other debought is about the insignia about this vehicle/Brigade: in the front and in the side have the inscription:

"Y.M.C.A."
"Tea Car"
"have a line that i can't read it looks like a date - June and have the year but can't read"
"Serving N. M. Forces" In this line i'm not sure if it is the N.M letters - The N looks like M or H

With this inscription have an inverted triangle that i don't know wath colour is. Red ??

Any one can help me with this ?

[Jan Pavlik]

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[hey]

Manu tks but i have read this post.

[greenbaron]

Thanks for your reply but i have this book (and another one from this company).
In this book (page 3) show a Tilly in Czechoslovak Brigade as a mobile canteen and it is the only picture (and information) that i have about this vehicle.
The colour should be green but the front bumper looks like other colour.
The other debought is about the insignia about this vehicle/Brigade: in the front and in the side have the inscription:

"Y.M.C.A."
"Tea Car"
"have a line that i can't read it looks like a date - June and have the year but can't read"
"Serving N. M. Forces" In this line i'm not sure if it is the N.M letters - The N looks like M or H

With this inscription have an inverted triangle that i don't know wath colour is. Red ??

Any one can help me with this ?

Hi Hey (all jokes aside),
I have that above mentioned book, too and I have to admit I was dreaming about doing that as a model. I am nearly sure that bumper of that Tilly Tea Car was aluminium or another silverish colour.
Y.M.C.A. "logo" consists of blue (or black) square and white letters on the background of red triangle (see the pictures attached) and I am sure they did not change the colours since the day it was introduced. Hope you can be sure tu use these (black or blue, red and white) on your Tilly Tea Car.
That lettering you are not sure about is definitely: SERVING H.M. FORCES (H.M. letters stand for His Majesty's) and from time to time there is OVERSEAS added to the end of inscription (depends on theatre they deployed that particular vehicle).
Unfortunately I do not know the number of that Tilly Tea Car. May YMCA archives can provide answer? If they do not know proper answer I would go "generic" way.
These "tea wagons" were taylored nearly as a makeshift cars so they differed car from car and make from make even if made on the same chassis... Please, find some pictures I have downloaded from the net.

HTH a bit at least.

Přílohy

[hey]

Many, Many Thanks !!

The last deboughts are how as would be the rear of the vehicle:

The rear bumper would be the same color than the front ?

Exist any inscription on the rear ?

Lower rear (the one that opens in the normal version of Tilly) would be flat or with the original shape ?

[greenbaron]

Those cars sported civilian registration plates as can be seen. They were staffed by women belonging to Auxiliary Forces and they were not part of units they were attached/allocated to.
YMCA logo varied even in colours, see the pics.

Přílohy

[hey]

Great photos!!
I already sent an e-mail to YMCA England asking for information about this operations during WWII.
When i have a response i put here information.

[hey]

The YMCA gave me an answer that anyone who has esrte file type is Birmingham University where the YMCA England holds their national archives, i have sent an e-mail an wait for reply.

However i started to convert my model...

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