C15A wrecker

[Ryan]

Morning all,
C15A wreckers. Was there ever such a wartime truck? Or is this something that is a post war mod?
The crane is stamped made in Scotland. Pics to follow as I'm not home at present.
Any light shed is welcomed.

[Grant Bowker]

As far as I know, all CMP and MCP wreckers were on 3 ton chassis. The two makers for the wrecker assembly thaat I know of were Holmes and GarWood.

It is possiblethat there might have been a 30 cwt wrecker although I haven't seen reference to one. Since the comments from the users were that the 3 ton based wreckers were lighter in capacity than they really wanted it seems that a 30cwt would have been even less useful.

My guess is that any wrecker on a 15 cwt chassis or for that matter a 3 ton FAT chassis fitted with a cab so that it would look like a 15 cwt on oversize tires would have been next to useless as a wrecker for anything larger than a jeep. The same short wheelbase that would make it more manouverable would limit the suspended tow capability.

Most likely the one you've found was a postwar assemblage of bits.

[mike mckinley]

i'm restoring my 12 cab c15a as a wrecker. mine will have a late 30's weaver crane on the back. i have discussed this topic at length with a recovery expert among us. although, to my knowledge there was never a factory built 15cwt wrecker, there were probably some made up as field mods, or locally built, when the need arose.

[Ryan]

Thank you Grant and Mike. It's in pretty poor shape and is missing all it's ID tags. Apart from a Holden body tag under the bonnet.

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

The town of atlin has a f15a factory wrecker used on the ww2 alaska hwy construction.
I have pix of the beautiful restored f15a wrecker resides in Victoria BC
and many other pix
hope to add one to my collection one day
dennis

[Ryan]

Here's some pics of it.