Morris C8 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Could this be a ww1 truck with hard wheels on the back. Captured in 1940. Photos from my collection 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rootes75 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Interesting. A book that I have recently finished reading called 'a Soldiers Story' by Mike Wood says in it from diary entries that 522 Company of the 50th Division were using Thorneycroft J Types over in France in 1940?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 The hubs of the rear axles have a design pattern more like a Dennis. Also similar where some American trucks of WW1. Overall the chassis appears to have been extensively modified and strengthened, hiding features that could identify it. The front tyre appears to be 24 inch so latter 1920's. The radiator is too deep for a Thornycroft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel7 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 The crane is French, and the chassis looks as though it might have been made for it. It also looks as though it might have been three axle originally, with larger rear wheels, as the solid tyred ones look rather small? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 (edited) Close up and photo made a lighter. Click on photo to enlarge. Edited July 20, 2021 by Morris C8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 I don't think this is actually a captured vehicle as such. It looks to me as though it has been used as a static crane - for unloading canal barges of gravel, perhaps? The rear bogie isn't straight, there is a missing bogie - no sign of any controls in the cab and it is settled on bits of plank in addition to its jacks. Just a thought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 New owners are now German 1940 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10FM68 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 I wouldn't consider the Germans in 1940 France to be "owners". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 It's a firm from Arras Travaux Publics ?????? & Fils. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel7 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 And the crane manufacturers are Les Ateliers de Bondy, Seine, who seem to have produced quite a range of machinery, much of it self-propelled. No idea on the chassis, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Ex-US Liberty B chassis I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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