05-03-04, 13:16
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Overvalwagen-o-logist
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: holland
Posts: 586
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Hanno, you wrote:
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"Try not to confine your search to the 4x4 COE configuration, nor to Defence Aid deliveries. As far as I can tell these were mostly, if not all, 4x2 conventional truck chassis. Also, the NEI goverment paid in cash for most of its purchases.
The NEI Army scrambled to gear up for war after the outbreak of war in Europe, and these Overvalwagens were of a somewhat expedient nature based on what was available on short notice from local sources: truck chassis from an assembly plant, steel plating from shipyards etc. So what we need is a list of chassis types (incl. wheelbases, tyre configurations, etc.) which were being manufactured and could have been made easily available to the Netherlands East Indies during the 1939-1941 timeframe and work from there. Could I beg our resident GM/Ford/Chrysler Automotive Historian to supply us with such a list?"
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Excellent point, I fully second this!
Nuyt
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