It is not the intention of this website to delve into any depth into all the vehicles produced by the Rootes Group but as some military vehicles share a lot in common with their civilian counterparts, and many enthusiasts use ex-Military vehicles, some military products are featured here. It is however worth noting the enormous contribution the Rootes Group  made to the Allies WW II effort. Peacetime assessments in 1945 revealed that the Rootes Group had made one out of every seven bombers produced in the United Kingdom during the war, 60 per cent of the armoured cars and 30 percent of the scout cars. It had also built 50,000 aeroplane engines, had repaired 28,000 others wrecked in crashes or in battle, had repaired more than 12,000 vehicles for the Army and the Royal Air Force and had assembled 20,000 other vehicles imported from allied countries.

At the beginning of the war, 17,000 employees were on the Rootes pay-roll. By the end, one in every hundred people in Great Britain employed as civilians in the war effort were working for, or on behalf of, the Group.

Check the bottom of the page for Website links to Commer Military vehicles

Click on the photos to go pages about these vehicles

Websites on Commer Military Vehicles

http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/vehicles/mwv/vehcomq4.htm

Web page on a post-war Q4 4x4 workshop truck at the REME Museum, Barkshire, England

 

http://www.armyvehicles.dk/commerq4.htm

Danish Army Vehicle webpage on an earlier model Q4 truck which presumably they had in their army fleets

 

http://www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk/collections/vehicles/vehicles_info.asp?id=12

And another page on the Q4 4x4 from the Yorkshire Air Museum

 

http://www.goatpark.force9.co.uk/tempsite/commerq4.htm

Another Q 4x4. This webpage tells the story of Charlie in Scotland who looks into buying a Q and ends up buying two! There are great pictures of the progress from acquisition through to completion - with just a little rush in the end! I'm sure this will interest and inspire other restorers!

 

http://www.o5m6.de/commer_q4.html

A webpage with a brief outline of the earlier wartime Q4 lend-lease to Russia

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/PhotoSearchItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=5394447

Picture of a wartime Commer Superpoise troop carrier from the Australian Govt National archives