Apparently RH drive?
Wonder if any of you know what this is?
Could be the King’s truck, going by the doovie above the windscreen. 
It appears to be from an era when modifications were rife. Many wartime vehicles were updated with 50s or even home made cabs. NR Macks were prime examples of the practice.
Sorry I can’t help further, Dig might have more of an idea.
That thing on the roof and the corner marker make me wonder if it is Australian, maybe Kiwi, Saffa or Indian.
One way or the other…I agree that it’s ‘something’ assembled for war-surplus…White, Mack, whatever
Not getting many offers Pete, having googled a bit my guess would be a 1930s something Berliet.
Oily
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Star down under.:
Could be the King’s truck, going by the doovie above the windscreen.
It appears to be from an era when modifications were rife. Many wartime vehicles were updated with 50s or even home made cabs. NR Macks were prime examples of the practice.
Sorry I can’t help further, Dig might have more of an idea.
That thing on the roof and the corner marker make me wonder if it is Australian, maybe Kiwi, Saffa or Indian.
The triangle on the cab roof was to denote a wagon and drag outfit. The lorry looks like a very late thirties or early postwar Mercedes Benz.
The triangular ‘thing’ on the cab roof is to denote a wagon and drag outfit. The lorry appears to be a late thirties or early postwar Mercedes Benz.
Not sure but it could have a Mercedes badge top centre of the radiator cowling.
dave docwra:
Not sure but it could have a Mercedes badge top centre of the radiator cowling.
Some similarities to a Leyland Buffalo, the radiator is definitely bigger than a Hippo but no name panels and some similarly in the mudguards But…
Dig
Its an early incognito Big J with a 240 Percy in it!
David
I think it’s a Mercedes L6500 from the mid 1930s. The fact that it’s RHD isn’t unusual for that period, in fact a lot of German market Mercedes pre-war cars were right hand drive.
It’s not a White but on the mudguards…it has some resemblance or still US-manufactured?
As we are proceeding here step by step I still assume it’s a mix-up of ex-army surplus, the
radiator with a wink to Mercedes-Benz and so on
I’d say it’s a pre war Mercedes Benz and likely a military type possibly Luftwaffe even, by the start of the war 1940 onwards they mostly had full windscreens. You can tell the radiator is Mercedes with the four thin equal spaced horizontal lines across which are noticeable on photo’s more so than the vertical lines and it has a feint sign of the small circular Merc badge. This truck has no doubt been painted more than once in it’s life as there isn’t any indication now of the larger Merc three pointed radiator badge. Franky.
group.mercedes-benz.com/company … -1945.html
I think it must be a Merc as well. Looks like, as with many, there were different incarnations in that era.
Well…let’s proceed on this…and at the end of the day…in that era all was possible to repair, exchange, re-assemble and what you call it.
Herewith some MB-pics and for military purposes…I think a 4x4 would be a better choice 
@ Essexpete…as you started this thread…is there more on the screen-print given to mine more data?