wally dugan

HI IAN JUST LOOK at the pictures in the volume v11 of canadian trailers it does look like one shame there is not a view of the wheel and the rear fitted with METAFILTERS

I have allways said l do not know much about american trucks but in the TM 9- 2800 DATED 1947 page 346 is a FEDERAL TYPE C2 like the one in NOS post down to the curved wings it states amongst other things fitted with 110 volt DC electric power plant 3000 watts this might mean nothing may be a differant type but does have the curved boom and a picture

NOS unrra numbers 38/56/ 57 wheels and tracks good read

NOS if you can wait until tomorrow will let you know if some one does no beat me to it

THE B card records at the RLC MUSEUM do not contain any information on ex british wartime vehicles transfered to other goverments yes if you have a british army cenus number they may find its details beter still the post 1948 number

HI NOS bart vanderveen did a good piece on UNRRA vehicles in WHEELS AND TRACKS

HI could be a truck tractor wrecking type C2 seven half ton 6x6 4 DT FEDERAL

TED i have nothing on a 1958 exbo so l do not know if there was one that year

TED l found the photo albums that cover the 1954 /56 exhibtions but while all the commer types are there the pictures of recovery commer are not also l have been through all the line drawings and again there is no drawings great set of photos of the bedford RLW but l do not think thats of help sorry REGARDS WALLY

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Ian now l have got the the key card copyed in full COLOUR it shows more detail the first five trailers are GEN 9 KW 2 WH 1 TON the next eight are trailer 1 TON macin gas WELDING MADE by TRANSPORT ENGINEERING COMPANY which includes your the last two are CARGO ANY WAY YOU WILL SEE FOR YOUR SELF sending you a copy with some other details REGARDS WALLY

IAN these are the details of your trailer 82 YM 77 contract number 57071 chassis number was 10596 seems to be differrent in your photo X number 6197876 WAS SOLD AT OLD DALBY TW0 MONTHS AFTER DATE ON PLATE ON THE 2/9 /55 OLD DALBY IS NEAR LEICESTER your trailer is a early one so how do l know all this well l have the key card and when l fathom out how to post it l will or send me you home address and l will post it to you only thing l need to do is find when it was made l have looked at the CHILLWELL RECORDS BUT THE INFORMATION CONTRADICT OTHER scources l will not even try to guess at it at the moment but will let you know as soon l can if thats alright with you REGARDS WALLY

THE moke went to the school of tank technology not the tank museum this is not unusual it may have gone as a instruction piece to show basic engineering

IAN misunderstood tony and teds post and fererance to the coventry climax

IAN if you can give me a few days l will see what l can do if l can get my son in law to post the information on here there where six types on this chassis the only differance between them seems to be tyre size yours should have 900x13 others had 750 x20 I cannot find it been used as a pump trailer also there were several manufactureres does this start to help REGARDS WALLY

NOW you have posted the pictures of the trailer it is not a number 5 mark one as it has not got the castor wheel it has a handbrake which was not fitted on the 5 mark one but was fitted on the early GS THERE IS DIFFERANCE IN LENGTH BETWEEN THE TWO 5 MARK ONE IS 10 FT 9 INCHES THE EARLY ONE IS 11FT 6 INCHES the post war number is listed in the record 0f key cards which were held at BEVERLEY and are now at DEEPCUT

TED l will look and see if l have any Drawings OF Q 4s if that will help if you could give me a list of information that would help you no matter what give me a try Even l do not know whats in the files no matter how Daft like YOUR model over the years l have collected quite a few most where presentions biggest is 5ft 6 long 14 inches wide 11 inches high in metal of the scammell commander and trailer l envy any one like you who can make models REGARDS WALLY

THE one at Bovington was sent from CHERTSEY in 1963 details on here

JUST looked it up it appears in the 1956 CHERTSEY BOOK EXHIBIT 51 PAGES 144 /145 but you may already know this

TED l have the user trials file dated 1967 F.T./ B 1013 for the commer 4x 4 four half ton with pictures and also more than likely the bodies l may details of RGX 139 ON FILE

I have seen this style before it was quite common in the 1920/30 on a few vehicles l would go with richard on this morris but we had a TALBOT AMBULANCE with the same pattern and five stud

I have some details on the one ton trailer the one in your picture is discribed as the latest type with castor wheel 2 wh gs number 5 MARK ONE IT ALSO STATES supporting legs none fitted

HI GRAHAM THE copy is the information from the CHERTSEY file on MOKES AS POSTED on here on the 8 of the 8 th and the 9 of the 8 th REGARDS WALLY

YOUR question about civillian type registration numbers this stopped been used on military vehicles after the fall of france and was replaced by a system refered to as cenus numbers all vehicle numbers would start with a prefix letter this would tell you what the vehicle was IE A was a ambulance Z trucks under 1 ton and so on This would be followed a series of numbers example Z 123456 the RAF and NAVY adopted there own system l hope this helps abit to understand

GRAHAM IN defence of the army the system they used was well structured it was only at CHERTSEY IT was a bit of a mess but having records does help