Gordon_M

I'd guess the priority job would be to finish paint at least the back of the cab and the front face of the body - unless you have already managed that? There's no way it would make sense to refit the spare wheel gear without those faces being painted first.

If Team Gosling ever "allow the grass to grow under their feet" it'll be because they have just discovered the remains of an early steam-powered lawnmower...

International Metropolitan van: ... and a late 1930's Dodge with a Montpelier body The truck could have been bought in the US with charity funds and forwarded to the Red Cross effort

That Clubmobile looks like a standard American truck with a body and cab by Montpelier or Metropolitan, which did such COE conversions through the 30's into the early '40's when manufacturers own COE cabs appeared.

If the cooling system is run unpressurised, depending on the elevation of the pump, heavy duty grease from that fitting may provide a sufficient seal for a days use.

Having browsed back over the Thorny and peerless threads, it looks like you have had the Thorny stuff since around 1988 and the Peerless stuff since around 1992. Given that you started with so much more Peerless stuff, and it appears to be in much better condition generally, why did you decide to do the huge pile of work to push the Thorny through to completion, over progressing with the ( NOT using the word easier here ) Peerless?

It's not a wartime production cab, no, and probably not from a GMC factory, but it looks like it was made for that specific job. Somewhere in the US a small factory would have turned out modest quantities of these cabs, probably as quick assembly kits, just because there were so many open cab trucks that really wanted a roof. May be military, or may not. This is a military arctic cab for the GMC open cab: https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?t=213119 ... virtually identical except they kept the rounded lower door shape.

Indeed, but if you look at a proper closed cab GMC everything is rounded and sloped, cab, roof, screen, rear. Later in the war they made many, many more basic open cabs, easy to get out of when you are getting shot at, but post war when it was raining or snowing you really needed a basic square cab you could just replace the canvas of the open cab with - that's what you have in the picture

Well that is a standard open cab long wheelbase with Banjo axles and no winch, which is about all you'd be able to discover. Some of the chassis numbers identified if it was originally a tipper, or a chassis cab, or whatever, but not mush more.

Julian is around Dundee somewhere, not sure exactly where. I built that with the best of the sheetmetal from both sets, so he has the other hood. I think I gave him the original tailgate cover sheet( replaced ) too, since it had the same number on it so he could copy font, style, size, and so on. I think you need that bonnet for your WC-38, though the serial number you pick won't start "20xxxxx" of course. Gordon

If you have ever wondered exactly how a wheelwright goes about making these wheels, you may want to take half a day and watch Engels at work: It'll take you a while though, but there's a lot of good wooden wheel info in there

Not quite Nick. Uncle Sam bought two batches of T112 militarised civilian trucks, about 800 in each batch, and also impressed a load of other similar trucks. I had a couple of the WC 36 Carryalls and there are a few other military half ton 4 x 2 trucks about. Anyway, for that truck you need 1939-47 TC, TD, VC, VD, or WC, WD half, three quarter, or one ton rear fenders. You do NOT want military half ton 4 x 4 VC fenders as they are cut differently and have the spare wheel well on the RH one. They are not difficult to get in the US, but are seldom in good condition. However if you can get them in solid but battered condition they will re-shape back to original fairly easily - watch the wire-turned edges though. Plymouth, Fargo, and DeSoto are identical.

Worth remembering the open and closed cab parts are different. ( open cab slides are longer, for example )

Fawley, then? Apologies for off-topic drift.

It's refinery practice. I'd guess Esso doesn't actually own the refineries supplying those areas ( or any areas...) but just sub-contracts the production. Scotland would be supplied by ( Ineos? ) at Grangemouth, Teesside by Billingham, and Devon & Cornwall by someone down there. The refinery owners have decided that their majority customers will put up with Ethanol so it is in there. EDIT - later - Billingham / Teesside is now just storage and distribution, so I'd guess it was distributing fuel refined by Grangemouth and moved by pipeline. Questions for the house then, what refinery supplies Devon & Cornwall area, who owns it?

Solid looking truck with all the right bits. Rear lights are always a compromise though.

Is it just me or did that look entirely predictable?

I don't like the look of the existing sump repair at all. It would have to come off to allow the inside to be inspected, not least because the strength of the material round the drain plug may be compromised. Best solution would be to grind out the lump and re-weld, followed by a coat or two of tank sealer internally.

Well that is good progress, even if it is not yet there. Looks good even with just the cab hood. Fuel tank leak seems odd, with sealant and so on. It isn't fixed rigidly to the scuttle and subject to any twisting when the scuttle flexes, is it?

I'm sure you would, Shell were there well before that

Not really. In the forum shot above we have a right front 3/4 shot of TK 620, in the Google image we have a right rear 3/4 shot which should be pretty much 90 degrees round from there. No way the other plane would be in that shot unless it was a five yards from TK 620.

Far to the right, well outside the angle of that shot.

Contest away. Parallax has put two of the antennae stubs on the same plane - notice how one looks a little thicker? ... and the tanker was moved to fuel up the second plane as the chap with the camera was walking round the back

He's right, you know. It even shows the wing antennae stubs to be on another Mossie parked next to it.

I would think that would be pretty much exactly as it came, with just a pump, filter, meter, and output. Hoses and so on in the side lockers.