question G195 M19 snow trailer, 1-Ton, Saginaw Canvas

[GoranWC51]

Who, if any, makes canvas for the Saginaw trailer?

 

Goran N

[Jim Clark]

If you give us a good set of drawings and some pics I dont see why we cant make you one. Did you get my email regarding the canvas bed cover?

Jim.

[GoranWC51]

"Did you get my email regarding the canvas bed cover?"

 

- Yes I did, Jim, thanks. I'll dig up the bed from the deepest part of the basement (where my wife puts all my stuff.... sigh)

 

Goran N

[Gordon_M]

These trailers were made in two batches, 1944 and 1950, and I have two of the 1950 covers here. You could make a cover for it, and one chap in the US, I forget who, did a complete restoration of an M19 including the original type cover, like this one; ( the unpainted bits are and original "SX-1", and top right an ORDNANCE Flaming Bomb sign..

 

 

 

 

Let me give you a cover description, so you understand the complexity. M19 cover are double canvas, white outside, green inside - reversible, and quilted for insulation. Apart from the front and rear flaps which are permanently attached there are two windows in each side, permanently attached flaps, with hook / rope covers.

 

Because they are reversible, all the little flaps and so on have to work both ways, and the metal flange sewn into the roof for the exhaust pipe ( did I mention they have metal flanges sewn in ? no ? ) have to suit reversible locations too. All the tie-down hardware only seems to appear on the M19 cover and no other trailer.

 

For a trailer the same size as a Ben Hur, and with a similar load rating (though 1/3rd the weight ) there is probably as much work in making the cover as there would be in making the rest of the trailer. I have rebuilt a copule of M19s, and made one cover up out of straight canvas just to cover one, but would never attempt to make an original type cover, although, as I said, one guy in the US did.

 

A non-original cover, like for an ordianry Ben Hur, would be your best bet I think

 

Gordon