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Originally posted by Bill Murray
As regards IHC taking over of the Ford MH business for the USMC, I have from BGEN USMC Fred Robillard himself a lot of the original file materiel of IHC's proposal to the USMC and a couple of sales prospectus binders with photos, data etc.
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Bill, when time permits I'd like to learn more about the content of these files. I wonder if the Cargo and Personnel body as fitted to the Ford and IHC trucks was a USMC design? At least it seems it was designed to fulfull their specifications. Anything about that sort of information in those files?
For now, I leave you with a colour picture of a line-up of IHC M-2-4 1-ton cargo trucks:
Source:
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aam; also see
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aao,
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aan and
http://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/marines/aal