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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh
Welcome to forum, and condolences on succumbing to the green disease.
I don't recognize the term starter charger. In the NW Europe Canadian context there were trucks with battery chargers and replacement batteries for the gun tanks. My big book of all things intelligent gives them as, Truck, 15-cwt Battery Charging + Trailer, 20-cwt Workshop Servicing, located in Headquarters Squadron's Administrative Echelon. Like any other fitter's vehicle,
they'd move forward as requested to get a tank with dead batteries going. This was of course in the days before the invention of jumper or slave cables.
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They are based on a Loyd carrier with PTO driven 12 & 30 volt dynamos and equipment to maintain batteries. The 12 volt dynamo used for charging batteries and the 30 volt dynamo with a battery bank used for jumping vehicles. They carried 2 sets of 15ft slave leads, one set with probes to contact the battery terminals and one set with a plug, some tanks had sockets to plug directly into the electrical system. I have seen pictures of them in NW Europe mainly lined up if field's late/post war but I can't see the markings.