1939 Austin K3 YB

This vehicle took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1939 Austin K3 YB and though it's not shown in the programme of the event it was there the following year when the only information shown in the programme of the event was that it was entered by A.N.Lawton of Birch Vale, Stockport. The K3 had a capacity of 3 tons and a 6-cylinder 3462cc petrol engine, and many of them were used by the British Forces in WWII. I remember that they were a common sight on the streets in the late 1940s and early 1950s..