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    I have no doubt you will come up with a plan.
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    DUKW

    john1950 replied to john1950's topic in American Vehicles

    Thats the spice of life. Big G.
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    DUKW

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    I have become the owner of a dismantled rear axle from a DUKW. I do not have a vehicle but I have a box to put it in.
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    A great project, good luck.
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    Welcome. you are starting an emotional journey. As is the post on HMS Van Dyke another hospital ship. There is a thread in the Naval section of this Forum about HMHS Amarapoora. There are several postings.
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    A great site.
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    Great progress.
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    When my father transfered from the Army desert salvage, to the RAF air sea rescue. They did not have many spares, he knew where some Napier Lion engines were buried in the desert and they went and dug them up.Using them in the boats. It could have been an area used and vacated by 40 ASP. I also remember him saying he had watched an amunition dump being blown up to deny the stocks to the enemy, He watched the shock wave travel accross the desert floor. I have got singed eybrows just watching the video about Hot Forging, working in those conditiond day after day.
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    I was not dreaming then. I am off to the machine shop now to see how they made bomb casings
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    Spending all of this money. I hope it was worth destroying a hanger to make a film
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    If I remember correctly there was a post on here to identify a railway engine, a sign on there I think read 40 ASP.
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    It is many years since I had anything to do with a Lathe, It always seemed to take me a long time to make anything usually a 3 or 4 inch dia pin.
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    It looks different close up. You can see the curve. I wonder how much time it took to machine something like that.
  14. john1950
    Could it be a shell possibly Navy.
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    Last one that I drove had no roof or doors. They were a well engineered truck but that enclosed rear propshaft.
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    No one has meantioned that lump of ordinance in the foreground. In the second picture the side window is smaller and have a quarter light I think, there is no bonnet motife, and the running boards are different. With the lack of add ons this side it may be left hand drive. What do you think?
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    I do not know the part of the world that you inhabit, In the U.K. you would have to serve in the military to have access to anything like that.
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    Ford, Chevrolet, DeSoto, Plymouth and Dodge plus some others produced a similar family of vehicles. Some chassis were supplied to Australia and bodied by Holden. Because this appears to have externally mounted head lights I am going to go with Chevrolet.
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    I bow to your superior knowledge. Split windscreen like Albion but large hub ends to house epicyclic gearing.
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    I agree with you. Right hand side of the photograph is very blured in the area of the slat sided vehicle. It could also be a Fordson tractor pulling the trailer.
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    Thank you for a great report.
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    Does that say Ambulance of top of the cab on the 2nd from right. I will say for starters, R to Left. Albion, Fordson, Dodge, Chev, and Clark tractor, with a fuel tank on the trailer.
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    Either will give it a good go at matching.
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    Close up is much better, they are not wicker but wood boxes. Another tea mug.
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    Do you have a Bearing Services, anywhere near you or a Fleet Factors?
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