Autocar U-9064 navy tank truck - searching for information

[Goncalo Mendes]

 

Hi,

 

Anyone have some information and photos about the US Naval Aviation Autocar U-9064, with a tank truck body?

 

 

 

source:

http://www.trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=1930

 

I search all the net but only find this from a WW2 ad, and reference to a 1/50 model.

 

Many thanks,

 

 

G_Mendes

 

[Gordon_M]

A couple of things you need to know, then;

 

1. There is a thread showing two very similar tankers with single rear axles here;

 

http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=220967

 

2. That advert is in the very distinctive style of artist William Campbell. Campbell always painted trucks from real life ( or a photograph ) so that truck existed - even if they just made one of them.

 

You can see many more Autocars, plus examples of Campbells work and how he took a truck image and made it into an advert here;

 

http://forums.justoldtrucks.com/Topic603.aspx?PageIndex=4

 

There is a good example of his advert showing a Landing Craft on the back of an Autocar tractor there.