N.O.S. Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 As in the film "The Wages of Fear"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted angus Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Les my Dad drove one of those Whites 279 Fld Co RE 15th Scottish Div. I have a photo somewhere but it only shows part of the truck. TED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Another neat picture of a Federal tanker combo here (worth someone copying across): http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/forum01/index.php?topic=32678.195 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Not sure about its age, but isn't that more likely to be USAF rather than USAAF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 As in the film "The Wages of Fear"? Hos the fuel tanker coming along ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 As in the film "The Wages of Fear"? http://imcdb.org/movie.php?id=46268 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 How's the fuel tanker coming along ? Err - yes, well, a little behind (self-imposed) schedule. Sadly time for recreational use of spanners in 2009 was very limited, a fair bit of it spent messing about in French scrapyards :-D Hopefully that will change. In a rare burst of tanker activity this morning I did manage to order some new Bendix brake chamber diapragms - yes, new ones. The Bendix Westinghouse drawing is dated 1921! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 whist we are back on the tank trailer heres another piccy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 As in the film "The Wages of Fear"? A version of this film, was made with Tangerine Dream supplying the sound track. Anyone know where a soundtrack album is available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Heres one i made earlier, well 20 years ago well before the advent of all the resin kits that now abound. Its 1/35 scale and mainly scratch built with some vac formed componants from a German firm and wheels and axles etc from a old 1/24 renwall duece and a half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyFowler Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Nice one Les ! You obviously have steady hands to scratch build that beauty !:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25 pounder Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Hi Paul, Well if an F-1 tanker turns up I have all the manuals for one :-D. I don't know of a single surviving Federal tractor unit in the UK or Europe,either restored or not,but I'd be happy to hear otherwise. In the first pic you posted there is a glimpse on the left of another truck used by the USAAF in England,anyone care to make a guess at what it is?! Matt. I think that might be the famous Studebaker , tractor or 6x6 , not possible to tel on the picture! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25 pounder Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 sorry guys , got messed up with my message , consider this as non existent:red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 As in the film "The Wages of Fear"? Going to have to go and get my dvd out and watch it again now .:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I think that might be the famous Studebaker , tractor or 6x6 , not possible to tel on the picture! The first pic, on the first page ? It's a Studebaker US6, you can tell by the fender. GMCs had a double curve on the fender, Internationals had a gentle single radius curve, Studebakers went nearly straight back and then 90o down, like that photo. The reason that Studebakers ended up on air bases is because they were "limited standard" trucks rather than the GMCs which were "standard" Limited standard vehicles tended to be kept in one theatre, or with one organisation or one function, to avoid supply chain difficulties. They were also usually obseleted first and donated as war aid first, for the same reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25 pounder Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Thanks Gordon , I figured out it was a Studebaker , but had no idea why it served on an airfield in Britain during WW 2. I assumed Studebaker trucks generally went to the Pacific battlegrounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) Keeping the Studebakers on UK airfields meant that all those support parts didn't have to be moved forward after D-Day. Carryall and Command Dodges were kept on airfields for a completely different reason - they were too obviously senior staff officer transport, and officers up the sharp end knew that being anonymous in a jeep was much safer. One other oddball move was to take a load of the Dodge ambulances the airfields were issued with and swap them for K2's, which allowed the 4 x 4 Dodges to go to the sharp end while the 4 x 2 K2's just drove round nice flat airfields. This apparently accounts for shots of US personnel on USAAF airfields driving K2's. If I had to guess, I'd say that when production and logistics really got into high gear, and Axis air power was greatly reduced, a lot of these procedures went out the window. Wrapping up, you could see much the same vehicle mix, Studebaker, Carryall, Command (sadly no K2's) on the ALCAN and CANOL projects, for pretty much the same reason. Apparently a lot of the later Carryall and Command production went there rather than using shipping space to get it to Europe and not using it at the sharp end. Edited February 16, 2010 by Gordon_M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Here is a picture of what was the largest collection of US 6 trucks in the UK in recent years, I think there had been eight at one time, but dispersed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les freathy Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Some more Autocars to drool over Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Some more Autocars to drool over Jack Methinks the second picture is reversed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Methinks the second picture is reversed. Yeah, not too many right hand drive Autocars about! :angel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Here is a picture of what was the largest collection of US 6 trucks in the UK in recent years, I think there had been eight at one time, but dispersed now. Been there several years ago, not just military trucks also classic cars and trucks, think there was a 5th wheel tractor unit in that collection, shame the owner is no longer with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Les - do you think those pics might be the Berlin airlift? Civilian plane, possibly sacks of coal, oddball wrecker in aircraft recovery pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Les - do you think those pics might be the Berlin airlift? Civilian plane, possibly sacks of coal, oddball wrecker in aircraft recovery pic? That's a C-54, 42-72719 in military service with MATS. The cockpit still survives in a museum in Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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