Daily Photo - Chevrolet at the Gilf Kebir

The western edge of the Gilf Kebir is in the background of these photographs of a 1940s military Chevrolet, with cab in tact. None of the chevys belonging to the Long Range Desert Group had their cabs intact, which argues that this vehicle was once part of the Sudan Defence Force's Kufra Convoy, a motorized caravan which took supplies from Wadi Halfa in Egypt to Free French-occupied Kufra in Libya. The empty half-circle brackets mounted on each wheel arch used to hold rolled sand mats, which were employed to recover vehicles that had become stuck in soft sands.