[Bob Carriere]

Hi Stew

Yes my C15a cab11 came from a service station auction just West of Almonte...
...old chap by the name of McKay... he was selling everything and shutting down to Winter in Florida.

Nought the truck for the large bid of $135 back in 1979..... only reason I paid so much was that a local farmer wanted the truck to cut up for the central mounted winch. I towed it to a frineds place a few miles away.....Gary Winters... and ti sat there until 1998 when I floated it home.

That auction had everything... old blacksmith tools...forge...post ,ounted drill... tons of old Nash, Hudson, Ford engine block and tranny which went for pennies.......

On the trailer bit .. it was common for farmers to dismantel the front axles from CMP and weld just the outter flange on tubing to make axles..... also seen a lot of hay wagons for midgets made from axles and 13 inch wheels of anti tank gun axles....... the war surplus at the curve of Montclair and St Redempteur in Hull.... not far from the casino.... used to have dozens of these cannons.... breech block cut off and a square hole cut midway in the tube ... he also sold some surplus CF 100 jet engines to our high school including the trailer it was bolted to... the teachers had us take them apart and bagged the nuts and bolts for resale..... they had high quality fasteners every 2 inches...

Them were the days.....