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Description
Mr. Austin describes upgrading his mechanic’s license, and applying those skills in the maintenance of the Allied (British) truck fleet in post D-Day Europe.
Transcription
I passed my first, just an ordinary motor transport mechanic and then they wanted you better than that because you could only go to leading aircraftsman. So they said you better remuster. So I remustered and did a higher trade in what they called then FMT, fitter motor transport and we did, actually we bore engines and everything there. We used to, now motor transport is in the, most of the services. They had to be repaired very often because they had very poor gasoline and they used to burn up valves and all the rest of it. So every, I think it was four thousand, five thousand kilometres or something, you used to have to change the cylinder heads and that was, like our Chev, that was the Bedford. We had Bedford 1500, tonne and a half.