WD Subsidy lorries & Chassis Hooks

[Adam Elsdon]

More photographs of Maudslay's in RFC Service here at the Maudslay thread:

 

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?35070-Maudslay-Subsidy-Lorry/page2

[nz2]

A further variation to hook mountings can be found on a Thornycroft as provided by the Australian Army. I have seen a photo showing the mounting bracket as a length of steel about 15 inches long, riveted along and towards the top of the vertical face of the chassis rail, then protruding forward above the curve of the chassis to the springs. The hook from memory was in one piece with the mounting section, ie a blacksmith job. The flat steel section also had been shaped to pass over rivet heads in the chassis rail.

This would suggest the hooks were a later addition, the chassis being supplied without them.

This could also be inferred the chassis was purchased within Australia at the declaration of war and alterations made in preparation of trucks being dispatched to Egypt.

 

Rod will know more of those events from that particular sequence of time.

This gives further evidence as to the thoughts that some trucks left the factory with no towing hooks.

I can not locate the image at the moment of this hook form.

Doug:)

[Roy Larkin]

WW1 production

 

3,000 Phelon and Moore

 

 

P&M were comparatively a very small manufacturer

 

Tom

 

 

Contract for P&M 3.5hp RFC Model motorcycles in January 1918 was for 150 motorcycles per month at a cost of £72.00.01 each plus 90 sidecars at £20.00.00 each. Basic motorcycle was £62.12.00 plus extras including tools and delivered to the RFC Depot at Hurst Park. Contract subject to 8 weeks cancellation clause.