Also in Burma this 3 ton CMP with soft top and high sided wooden body

From http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

This is a 15-cwt, towing a limber.

This a local bodied utility which i think was built on a 15cwt not the 8 cwt and used by the RAF in Burma. I do have a better photo somewhere depicting a side view with the lads, i will try and locate it

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A 3 tonner with local body note the short overhang at the rear could this have been designed as a gun tractor, and are those truck side panels on the upper slope of the makeshift bridge

One for luck, a row of CMPs and a solitary Dodge in Singapore, the building appears to be well burnt out

Malaya
 

Lets not forget the distastrous Malayan debacle where some hundreds ? of cab11/12 DND pattern trucks changed hands .

Mike

Are you sure "the building appears to be well burnt out"?
 

My first reaction was that the building had been camouflage/disruptive painted "to make it dissapear in the bush". Apparently without too much success since all of the drivers found it.

Not exactly Asian but I did not know where to put it. Australian bliz gets a push from an American GMC. Song River New Guinea.

This is Asian but in Japan. Blitz being rtecovered by Diamond T

British army Korean workshop

Korean CMP water tanker

15cwt CMP and others on a raft ferry, could be a Indian regt looking at the personel
Les

At last i have located the elusive CMP photo of i am now covinced is based on a 8cwt chassis with local body work, the shot was taken in Burma and it serves with the RAF
Cheers
Les

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Les, I think you were right when you said it was a 15 cwt chassis. Those aren't 8 cwt wheels and neither is the box.

I've had this photo for years and can't remember where it came from but I was told it was an Indian Gun tractor coming ashore in Burma.

Les
 

There is something funny about that Dodge in the sixth photo.
The windscreen slopes back. It should be vertical.

See what you mean Lynn but i suspect the screen is in the open position
Les

Re: Les
 

The windscreen is in the open position. These Dodges had a windscreen frame with seperate glass panel which is hinged at the top so it opens. The whole thing can also fold flat across the bonnet.

Cheers
Cliff :)

Les,

Very interesting picture. Nigel posted one showing a similar (the same?) from a different angle in Chevy Indian Backbody.

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/at...=&postid=31409

Indeed, an Indian Pattern Field Artillery Tractor at Rangoon.

H.

Burma 1943
 

CMP truck loading a Catalina aircraft in Burma.

Photos by Jack Birns, dated March 1943

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Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/as...JAFnWO_3XqOdOw

Another photo from Burma, albeit postwar: