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28-01-21, 22:49
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Neat little trailer. Not seen one of those before. A quick search yielded the page you got your info from: https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.co...odycompany.htm
And these two threads on well-known forums: https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.ph...77565&start=15 https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/32350-what-kind-of-trailer/ It "appears to be some sort of communications trailer" 
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28-01-21, 23:27
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The one crossing the pontoon bridge is different in that it has twin rear doors that are almost the full width of the body whereas the one at the top of this thread has a single rear door and the tail lights in the body either side of the narrower door opening. Possibly a different make for the same basic role ?
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29-01-21, 00:06
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Lang,
Or possibly we are looking at early and late versions, or different versions for very specific uses. The rarity might be partly because they were quite useful but not as tough as the average truck and they all got battered to death. I had never heard of them before this thread. David
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29-01-21, 09:04
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I think the trailer crossing the Rhine is one captured from the German army or even a civilian one.
As these are so rare, one would have many degrees of freedom building a replica. You may want to consider building your own trailer like the Canadian 1st Division did in Italy. I’ll look op the thread on here later, but basically they turned the back halves of GS trucks in trailers or built their own on any chassis they could lay their hands on.
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29-01-21, 10:31
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Reason for the trailer is the "Back to the Track" convoy in July from Alice Springs to Darwin for VJ Day 75th (put off because of Covid from last year. I think there are 150 WW2 vehicles booked in for the 1,500km run. Only trouble is it is 3,000km to the start and another 3,000km home from Darwin. I was going to take my 1/2 ton Dodge but it will be 7,000km from Brisbane to back home again. At my age I decided I could do without the noise so I am looking at a Chevrolet Staff Car to do the trip in comfort which will require a camper trailer. There are plenty of wonderful light weight civilian campers available but one of those little WW2 trailers would look great behind the Chevrolet Lang Last edited by Lang; 29-01-21 at 10:41.
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29-01-21, 11:06
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I think the trailer on the pontoon bridge is actually the back half of a small motor van, like a Morris 10cwt or similar, might even have been made up before they left the UK
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29-01-21, 12:46
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We are considering building similar trailers for the Morris Tillys Lang. We have enough running gear to adapt and are thinking of making something to match the back end of the Tilly.
I’m starting to doubt the BTTT trip for this year too.
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29-01-21, 21:01
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That would be a nice outfit though I think any trailer behind a tilly would have to be very LIGHT. Still it is not a race. We have decided we will do the trip regardless in a military vehicle. I love the convoys of vehicles but if many did not have people inside them it would be much better on many occasions! Lang
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