LCplCombat Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 (edited) ..... Edited September 5, 2008 by LCplCombat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 I once found a reference in a British wartime Airborne manual to a 4x4 15cwt vehicle being used, but it didn't state what make. It must be Morris or Dodge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 It might be the airportable version of the Morris C8, will post up a pic if Ive got them on this computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/rik242_2006/morris_c8.jpg[/img] http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/rik242_2006/guntractor1.gif[/img] Any use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Don't forget not all of the vehicles of an airborne division were delivered by air. Some would have followed up at a later date by road. The ROAC element would I assume have been very limited even in Gliders to the size and number of vehicles which could have been delivered by air. I would suggest most specialist bodies on 3 tonners were fitted to Fords, with the most likely candidate for the 6X4 being a Leyland Retriver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 right the Dodges, the Airborne Portable Truck is the Canadian built dodge 3/4 ton . It is narrower than standard WC51. Steve Mc Guire, Canadian Scottish has one. This is a post of his. There are also pictures in the Library of Congress collection of Dodges that did split in half for air transport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Rimmer Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 It is likely the Dodge's could have been Canadian built D60's many were supplied to British contracts. Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Good point about the Arty plate, I realised that after I posted, but it shows an example of a C8 airtransportable. The bottom one as far as Im aware is the Air Transportable C8, pic comes from an earlier thread and originates from Wheels and Tracks magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Rimmer Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 is that the 3t 4x2? could fit Gonna take a stab and suggest the 3t 4x4 would be the Dodge C60L or C60S perhaps. Does anyone know if they shared common parts? And are there any around The C60's were built by Chevrolet and the F60's were built by Ford,both in Canada and Right Hand Drive. Also known as CMP's(Canadian Military Pattern) and widely used by British and Commonwealth forces. Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 The C60's were built by Chevrolet and the F60's were built by Ford,both in Canada and Right Hand Drive. Also known as CMP's(Canadian Military Pattern) and widely used by British and Commonwealth forces. Matt, I think L/Cpl was refering to the Dodge D60 3 tonner Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 The D60L was 4x2, hundreds were used in the Western Desert and later in Italy as well as France etc. Ford FC60L and Chevy CC60L 4x2's were also supplied to the British, all these trucks were normal control bonneted models derived from civi trucks and all were built in Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Im doing some research on RAOC vehicles used by the Airborne Division but im getting a bit stuck on exactly which vehicles these are. 3ton 4 X 2 Stores 3ton 4 X 2 battery storage 3ton 4 x 4 store, binned 3ton 6 X 4 Machinery I30 (REME) L/Cpl, The Machinery I30 vehicle was actually mounted on a 3 ton 4x4 chassis, at a guess I would say on a Bedford QL or Fordson WOT6 chassis. Its description was; "Plant, battery charging, constant potential, engine driven, 15/30 volts 200/400 amps". The Type I30 replaced Type I, which was mounted on a 3 ton 6x4 chassis and described as "Plant, battery charging, 7.5/15 volts, Board, battery charging" which was in use at the beginning of the War and subsequntly became obsolete. Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I would be supprised if many if indeed any any mobile workshop bodies were built on to Bedford QL chassis from new. Many were transfered across post-war as the Fords went out of service. The books suggest Ford WOT6 chassis as do all my Ruddington sales catalogues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I would be supprised if many if indeed any any mobile workshop bodies were built on to Bedford QL chassis from new. Many were transfered across post-war as the Fords went out of service. The books suggest Ford WOT6 chassis as do all my Ruddington sales catalogues. That is quite true, what I should have said was Albion 3ton 4x4 or WOT6.....there was some photos of Albion mobile wksps on this forum recently. As for the 3 ton 4x4 Stores, Binned, that could have been on a QL, as these were used in that role during WW2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Its probably very unlikely that the Airborne Division were using any Canadian manufactured 3 tonner's by 1944, but your picture is a very good example of a 3 ton stores truck. Just because a vehicle is described as carrying a binned body does not mean a house body. There was a body similar to this on a Bedford QL in a scrap yard in Somerset about 10 years ago. If I had known of a suitable donner vehicle (Ford) I would have considered saving it. Its a pity Fords are so rare, but they were obviously surplussed years before the QL's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Sounds like they were issued with what ever the ordnance stores had left at this stage of the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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