Willyslancs Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 just found this pic , thought might be interesting.......:coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Liberty Bs as far as the eye can see. What a wonderful pic! Must be the dump at Rouen after the war. No doubt Tim will tell us! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croc Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Isn't it the public car park at GDSF before they banned commercials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace1 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Isn't it the public car park at GDSF before they banned commercials? :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:very good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Fairly certain that it is not Rouen as that is where the British vehicles went. Almost certainly to be Le Mans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Fairly certain that it is not Rouen as that is where the British vehicles went. Almost certainly to be Le Mans. That would add a whole new outlook to the 24 hour race! Any idea what the production of vehicles was during the Great War? Considering the amount produced pre war there must have been a hell of jump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Indeed. By a remarkable stroke of luck i have all the US truck production figures for the US Army in WW1. 9,452 Liberty B's were completed by 11/11/18. The total number of US trucks built is staggering. Little wonder why many of these firms went under following the wars end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 OK font of all knowledge. Yes for the manufacturing at the time a remarkable achivment. Considering in the forties they were turning out Dodges about one every three minutes, how long did a Liberty take? I've also read that it was as a result of the Liberty's design by comitte that when re-armermaent camethe idea was approved to issue a basic requirment to the US motor industry and let them get on with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 What a great question. Had to get my calculator out for this one, but averaging 42 a day equates to one every 34 minutes. But the 15 different manufacturers had their own production rates with Gramm-Bernstein and Pierce Arrow averaging out 4.4 a day each while Kelly Springfield were doing just 1.3 a day. You are quite right as to the design technique. The Army got a group of truck manufacturers together and told them to design a truck for the Army. The Liberty is what they came up with and what a cracking truck it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWDTEXAS Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 There was also a Liberty motor cycle but only a few were made before war's end and a Liberty plane was also on the drawing boards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 What a great question. Had to get my calculator out for this one, but averaging 42 a day equates to one every 34 minutes. But the 15 different manufacturers had their own production rates with Gramm-Bernstein and Pierce Arrow averaging out 4.4 a day each while Kelly Springfield were doing just 1.3 a day. You are quite right as to the design technique. The Army got a group of truck manufacturers together and told them to design a truck for the Army. The Liberty is what they came up with and what a cracking truck it is. Does his knowledge know no bounds? :??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 No, i am afraid not. Father always say that if i dont know the answer i will make it up as there is no one about to prove me wrong. However I can confirm that i have never done that. In this instance the production figures are recorded in a book that John (FWD Texas) put me on to. A great book, especially for sad old gits like me. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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