Chevy 15cwt id please....

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A pal of mine is shortly going to rescue an old Chevy, here in the UK, its been off the road since the 1950s and used by a garage post ww2. As far as I know it is complete, plenty of surface dust, crust and grime, but definitely worth saving.

Doing a search on MLU brought up a thread with this picture in:



The truck that he's buying looks remarkably similar to those lined up in the pic above, at least to my eyes ... apologies for the picture quality, we'll take some more when it is collected ... the bit with the AA/RAC sign on looks like an addition, but otherwise the bodies look fairly similar ..




I'm the first to admit that I know very little about these. We're told its a 15cwt 4x4, but don't know much else. Gordon told me that its one of the alligator-bonnet jobs, and from looking around my guess is that it is a cab 12?

Any info that could be shed on this vehicle (CMP?), and comment on whether the body is correct, would be appreciated. Does anyone know what this machine weighs? or what it would have been used for originally? my oppo could do with the weight info in order to get someone with a suitable beefy transporter to bring it back. Would there be a market for something like this in the UK? I'll pass on any info that you can provide!

thanks!!
Rick.