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Old 27-12-23, 14:32
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Default Roofs without hatch

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Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering View Post
The roofs without hatch.....you see them a lot when you start checking pictures closely. First I thought the closed roofs might have been fitted to non frontline-vehicles, like the C60X Machinery trucks, Wireless vehicles and medical vehicles........but, they also appear on 3 Ton GS trucks in 1944/45 liberation pictures.....both on Chevs and Fords.
Ian could be right here.....contracts were leading (?)
Here's another photo taken during the liberation of Valkenswaard, the Netherlands, 11th of September 1944.
About half(!) of the CMP trucks shown do not have a roof hatch.

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