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08-08-07, 11:12
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Hi all
A contact of mine found this in his scrap yard and has asked for identification. He has been led to believe that it is the front end of a Dodge Weapons Carrier. 
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08-08-07, 11:13
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08-08-07, 11:14
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08-08-07, 11:20
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Interesting thing about these rims is that they have a GMH cap in the centre along with the number M-4211 stamped on the rim.
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08-08-07, 11:28
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Both rims had these warning plates. I obtained one and after a careful hour managed to scrape off all the old paint revealing as depicted.
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08-08-07, 11:30
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And standing alongside was a spare wheel. All wheels were 10.50x18 and branded Dad & Dave.
Bob
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08-08-07, 12:41
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Investigator Bob
Certainly not resembling any Dodge weapons carrier that I've ever seen. The 1/2 and 3/4 tonners are all four wheel drive.
Cheers, Lynn.
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Bluebell Carrier Armoured O.P. No1 Mk3 W. T84991 Carrier Bren No2.Mk.I. NewZealand Railways. NZR.6. Dodge WC55. 37mm Gun Motor Carriage M6 Jeep Mb #135668 So many questions....
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08-08-07, 13:11
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18" rims
Bob
there were a few variations with the Australian pattern 18" wheels . There was 18" a rim specifically made for use on trailers , you see them on the Aust. pattern trailers as with the compressor and many others . GMH were very proud of their own manufactured 18" army rims for the Chev. MCP trucks and they boasted about it too . They must have had dies made to make them , with huge presses . I think the rim story is detailed in the 'GMH war record' , a book published by them just after the war , it details GMH's wide ranging efforts to make all sorts of gear . I have scanned the book onto CD .... but its got a copyright mark in it . The book lists what was made at each plant ..... very interesting . Perth had its own wartime GMH plant too . Mike
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08-08-07, 13:13
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I agree with Lynn as it certainly is not a Dodge Weapons Carrier axle. . More likely to be an MCP Chev axle.
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Cheers Cliff Hutchings aka MrRoo S.I.R. "and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night" MrRoo says "TRUCKS ROOLE" 
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