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Hi all
A contact of mine found this in his scrap yard and has asked for identification. He has been led to believe that it is the front end of a Dodge Weapons Carrier.

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Interesting thing about these rims is that they have a GMH cap in the centre along with the number M-4211 stamped on the rim.

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Both rims had these warning plates. I obtained one and after a careful hour managed to scrape off all the old paint revealing as depicted.

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And standing alongside was a spare wheel. All wheels were 10.50x18 and branded Dad & Dave.
Bob

Investigator Bob
 

Certainly not resembling any Dodge weapons carrier that I've ever seen. The 1/2 and 3/4 tonners are all four wheel drive.
Cheers,
Lynn.

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Bob

there were a few variations with the Australian pattern 18" wheels . There was 18" a rim specifically made for use on trailers , you see them on the Aust. pattern trailers as with the compressor and many others .

GMH were very proud of their own manufactured 18" army rims for the Chev. MCP trucks and they boasted about it too . They must have had dies made to make them , with huge presses . I think the rim story is detailed in the 'GMH war record' , a book published by them just after the war , it details GMH's wide ranging efforts to make all sorts of gear . I have scanned the book onto CD .... but its got a copyright mark in it .

The book lists what was made at each plant ..... very interesting . Perth had its own wartime GMH plant too .

Mike

I agree with Lynn as it certainly is not a Dodge Weapons Carrier axle. . More likely to be an MCP Chev axle. :)