We published an example of Jonathan Clay’s transport art back November 2011; he was well-established in the railway field but had just recognised the potential of military vehicles as subjects. Apparently the mention in CMV brought forth a positive response, one result of which you see reproduced here, an evocative depiction of the GMC CCKW-352 owned by Terry Batchelor from Somerset.

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The Gutty prototype has recently re-surfaced after eight years in storage. James Taylor went to have a close look to see just what made it tick

The whole story of how Britain wanted to build its own Jeep-type vehicle to reduce dependence on the US-made Willys and Ford models acquired during wartime is very well known. In practice, nothing of any great significance happened on the project until WW2 was over, and then it took forever to get past the design and prototype stages and into production with the vehicle we know as the Champ.