Ford/Marmon-Herrington MGT's

[nuyt]

Hmmmm,

Just took a second look at Hanno's second MGT picture as mentioned and linked above and then I saw it:

Remember the description of the 1938 MH Scout car sold to the NEI above:

"Marmon-Herrington, 1938, T13-type scout car w/rear of hull cut off and replated, ring mounted .30 calibre mg rear of hull, .30 cal mg pedestal mounted on right outside, .50 calibre mg on high pedestal behind right front mudguard, radio-equipped,sold to the NEI"

Check out the high pedestal behind right front mudguard at the MGT pictured below (that has no .50 but a Lewis gun: KNIL had hundreds of these, 6.5mm and 7.7mm).

This may be all one big happy family of MH MGT and Scout cars! or was such a pedestal mount in that place a typical US pre-war feature?

So was MH producing a long line of MGT trucks starting off with the 1938 T13ish type Scout Car (that may have had some armour) and ending (?) with the 1942 model Ford/MH type like the one BoB Schutt owns?

Bill Murray, Robert Stafford and others, do you know of any other pictures of these kinds/series of Scout/MG trucks?

A credible source just suggested me that the Ford Commandowagen indeed was ordered at MH by NPC and was called Ford/MH LDI-4. I hope to have some more info on friday or saturday.

HTH
Nuyt