British Truck Trio

 A wise person once said 'you can never have too many lorries', so I was very pleased when Tim donated three unwanted 15mm WW2 British lorries for my collection.

Here they are in the flesh, all with open backs so useful for putting in various types of supplies. The casting style looks quite familiar as I have some similar metal trucks in my collection.

The tallest one is a Matador. I've already got some Zvezda plastic Matadors.

And a long Bedford. The only Bedford I've currently got is a command vehicle.

The castings look very similar to this pair, which I picked up second hand many years ago. I repainted these in 49th Div markings.

This is confirmed by the third truck, short wheel base open backed Bedford which is identical to my other two with covers. 

I'm not sure who the manufacturer was, although given their general clunkiness I suspect SDD. I used to have quite a bit of SDD stuff although much of it was sold some time ago. I've only got a pair of SDD German armoured cars, one Sdkfz 251 and a few resin SCW Tiznaos now (and I think the latter were moulds which SDD purchased).

Both the Bedfords have similar indecipherable scratchings on the bottom, but the smaller Bedford also has the line '15B11'. So 15mm British model number 11.

I can't recall if SDD numbered their models that way. Anyone got any ideas?

Meanwhile it is off the the painting table with this lot.