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The stencils were made to my design by Tony of Axholme Signs - www.axholmesigns.co.uk I can recommend his work. I'll get a photo of the end tomorrow. Meanwhile here's the side.
Here are clear photos of the side and the end. No markings on the top, as far as I know. The B number is the batch number. I've used a typical number from around 1944-45.
The only observation I would make is about the breaks in the letters where the inner parts of the loops etc form in the stencil. I don't remember seeing any British boxes marked in this way. Do you have a reference showing this or have I just heard you say Doh! :tinysmile_shutup_t2 I spoke to a chap at the weekend and he suggested that the "bars" were so thin that the gaps were filled in by overspray.
This is the clearest wartime photo that I've found. It's even in colour! I based my stencils on this.
Preston Isaacs, Chairman of the Military Vehicle Trust, has a Morris C9/B which has several C219s fitted and they are all stencilled in this way. I am fairly certain that they are original.
Ive been racking my brain trying to remember which thread we were talking about stencils. I've since found out that if the stencils were applied by machine then the bars making up the letters were so thin that when sprayed the bars were filled in mking them look like the letters were printed. If the stencils were applied by hand then the bars had to be larger which left the gap in the letter.
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