Here are some other photos on other treads on this forum.


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(W.W.I - 1914 - 1918) Happy Canadians who captured Vimy Ridge returning to rest billets on motor lorries. May, 1917

The "rope" around the front axle of the Model T airfield fire truck is actually rubber bungee cord (like cloth covered speargun rubber or the equivilent thickness of hundreds of bundled rubber bands) as used in the undercarriage suspension of all aircraft of this period.

I think they would have been quite effective as rebound shock absorbers over rough ground on high speed rescues of crashed planes.

Lang

John,

From the different demenour and dress on the boys in the two trucks I suspect the joyous mob on the left are going back for a rest and the much more subdued crowd in the right truck are going in to replace them?

Lang

Les,

The real reason machines replaced horses - You don't slip over in tractor s--t!

Lang

Well said Lang ,i have slipped up in tractor s***t many times in the past
a further model T seen here with the the Hucks aircraft starter

Karrier
 

Cliff, that Karrier is with the 7th Canadian Railway Troops somewhere on the Western Front in 1918. That's my uncle Jack Bushman sitting on the fender. I've posted this picture on a few sites.

Lorries on a side street. June, 1916
Source: Library and Archives Canada - PA-000025

Line of lorries ready to take ammunition to the Front. June, 1916 Source: Library and Archives Canada - PA-000012

Re: Karrier
 

Thank you David I will alter my records to include that information. It is a nice picture and thanks for sharing it with us.

Cheers
Cliff

PS> some of my early saved from the net pictures I keep no details of the source but I am slowly solving this lapse on my part.

Nice photo Les,

I have toyed with making a T Model Hucks Starter a couple of times but it would make the vehicle useless for road use. I do have a set of WW1 drawings of the whole set-up and a few photos of them in operation at Point Cook near Melbourne in the early 20's. Any well equipped workshop could build the whole system in a day.

There are some beautifully clear photos of Australian Light Horse Model T's set up as "Long Range Desert Group" recce cars in Palestine/Syria about 1918. I will see if I can find them on the War Memorial web site.

Lang

Australian LRDG Style Model Ts returning from patrol in the Jordan Valley 1918

A couple of Playboy Centrefolds? I think not! France 1919

More Australian Recce cars. Palestine 1918

Nice shot of Model T and Tank in France

Another good Model T and tank shot at Ypres

Henry Ford put the whole world on wheels - even the bad guys. Turkish Model T captured by Australians in Syria 1918

A few minor field modifications. France 1917

WW1 in colour
 

Here's a few colour WW1 photos of trucks in French service.

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ID?
 

I am probab;ly wrong but believe the ambulance to be a Buick model 16AA ambulance.

You are probably right about the Buick. The guards look very Model T and the radiator is like the "tall" radiator of the later Fords but I seem to recall this was not introduced until a bit later - someone else will know.

The front suspension etc does not look like Ford.

Think we have trouble identifying these vehicles, it will be impossible for anyone in 100 years time to differentiate today's Ford, GM, Chrysler, Renault etc etc clones. If there was ever a boring, unoriginal, styling period in motoring it has to be the 15 years since 1990.

Lang

Repro WW1 vehicle
 

Seen at this year's Corowa event was this reproduction 1915 Machine Gun Carrier Model T built by Colin Anderson.

Based on a 1915 Tourer, Colin has been collecting bits to build this over a number of years, but the actual rebuild was achieved in a matter of a few months.

http://www.oldcmp.net/Images/yotac/Colanderson.jpg

Source

Between the two world wars the cigarette company W.D and H.O Wills produced a set of cards based on WW 1 military vehicles. I believe there were 50 in a set but cuold be wrong on this point, they were a most interesting set the artwork being based on various British, French,and Belgian vehicles plus other types. I do not have a full set but have posted a few for interest i suppose we could go into competition time and see how many types can be identified, the captions on the back only tell its type not the makers
Les

2nd set

3rd set

Searching the older posts for interesting pictures and other information I found also this post regarding the WW I softskines. I think it is very interesting topic and would add two more picutres from my files. Here are early Ford Model T Ambulances.

By the way, does anybody have picutres of Mack AC in military livery?

Happy searching,
Jan Mostek

And here is the second picture, Fiat 18BL used by US Army. The original picutre comes from archive of Army Memorial, St. Louis, MO.