2009 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

Well time for some catch up pictures of our latest efforts.

The Evil Rotters have been busy this season.

We all know that thanks to Brian Gough Rob has become the Ottawa Hup master........Brian remains the HUP Grand BooBa......

Moving 3 Hups plus a HUP body from the bug infested Ontario Forest has blwon away a few weekends..... then I went back to Oshawa to pick up one of Mel's cab 12 for potential parts source.

The worst partr is we still have at least 4 more trips for a frame, a trailer and possibly two more HUP parts vehicles.......

Time for some pcitures....

First of Hup NO 1....... dated August 1942..... and its a cab 13...Hum !!!

Poor guys could not afford a winch and had to muscle it on by come-a-long..
This was on the Easter weekend.... two Ford trucks/trailer bringing to Chev Hups......

ROB...note... I can't seem to find my pictures of the Prototype..lost in the crash maybe..... will need to check my files.

The we did HUP no#3 in June while visiting the Barrie Antique car flea market...the rear wheels refused to turn and the HUP crabbed sideways while loading..... nothing a little jacking could not take care of..... carefully pushing the HUP off the jack in its place.....

Will do a seperate one for the cab 12 and the body.....

Boob

[Bob Carriere]

Back to the chicken farm......

Now mid June to bring back the cab 12...... safely at home in the driveway....

One of the original run flat tire had a little cut in the side wall..... I inserted my Ford door key a full 1 1/2 half inch into the cut.... tire was flat yet it held up the front end of the cab as if inflated.....

Now the HUP body was another storey and another weekend.... deep intot he woods of cottage country...... Biran and Mel pooled there collective memory to figger out where it was last seen.....hidding behind a cloud of black flies..... there she was in all her glory....not sure if they were bullet holes or fly bites....

skidding her on without wheels was a challenge but we did it..... a bit of jacking....some lumber..... some heaving.... and she got one nicely....

Brian could not resist looking under the front seat for loose change... probably looking for a "1943 thumback nickel" made of copper....

Drive home was uneventful except for some OPP chickee who stopped us to check our seat belts and see if we had been drinking.... she probably assumed we had to be drunk to drag that thing home......

Although we have said it before .....it bears repeating...... none of this would have happened without the help, assistance and guidance from Brian.....

....... at least that's what we told our wifes......


BooBee
PS...... and thank God my 'Puter is up and running...again !!!!

[Phil Waterman]

Glad to see so much CMP heritage being save from the scrap mongers.

Cheers and Well Done

Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

...Moving 3 Hups plus a HUP body from the bug infested Ontario Forest has blown away a few weekends...First of Hup NO 1... dated August 1942..... and its a cab 13...Hum !!!Boob

Why is it that so many who were lucky enough to get a HUP after the war had to cut off the rear sheet metal??? Why didn't they just get a "real" CMP instead. It boggles this HUP lover's mind...Fortunately, there are some HUP/HUW bodies still to be had (albeit in various stages of decay). I mean to have all within reach...(cue nefarious sounding music).

Thanks for the pix, Bob. A big shout out goes to Brian Gough for the art of the deal, Bob Carriere and Grant Bowker for transport and to my wife who puts up with this obsession (she doesn't seem to mind - in fact, she still is out shopping...).

[cliff]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Why is it that so many who were lucky enough to get a HUP after the war had to cut off the rear sheet metal??? .

Because trucks were more expensive to buy and these 'Vans' were cheaper and easy to chop. Same thing happed here with artillery tractors and signals vans in particular.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by cliff

Because trucks were more expensive to buy and these 'Vans' were cheaper and easy to chop. Same thing happed here with artillery tractors and signals vans in particular.

It made them 'useful'.

There were some 'van conversions of No8 and 9 arty tractors as well as sigvans. I've even seen sigvans used for smallgoods.

Oh well.

[Phil Waterman]

I've heard that the Signals Vans in fact any of the special use big trucks were more prized because as surplus (by some) because they had not been pounded to death so hard as the general service hauling trucks.

As anyone else heard similar stories or comments?

Cheers Phil

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

I've heard that the Signals Vans in fact any of the special use big trucks were more prized because as surplus (by some) because they had not been pounded to death so hard as the general service hauling trucks.

As anyone else heard similar stories or comments?

Cheers Phil

In Australia we kept many of our specialist vehicles for a long time. These included Wireless Sigs vans, Gun Tractors, Direction Finding vans (on F60S), Ambulances, Fire Tenders and Machinery Workshops. Many of these were very low mileage when surplused, especially those on RAAF bases.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

In Australia we kept many of our specialist vehicles for a long time. These included Wireless Sigs vans, Gun Tractors, Direction Finding vans (on F60S), Ambulances, Fire Tenders and Machinery Workshops. Many of these were very low mileage when surplused, especially those on RAAF bases.

Jon Skagfeld can regale you ad nauseum with stories of our CMP sigs vans still in service in the latter half of the fifties, even well after the introduction of the M- series vehicles...

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

It made them 'useful'...Oh well.

Yes, when faced with a need, you adapt. I of course speak (whine) on behalf of those spoiled HUP owners who can afford (today, at least) to restore a truck, and not for those farmers, truckers, etc...who had to make a living with these trucks.

But I still don't like it...(nice thing about this forum is that you can't see me pouting...).

[Greg]

Hi Rob,

You must be watering and fertilizing well as the cmps are multipling.
Hope all is going well.

Cheers,
Greg

[Bob Carriere]

..... we are not spraying with fertilizer....... we use Round Up to keep them from multiplying.......

All joking aside Ottawa as been so wet and damp this season....... we have some grass growing in damp soil and getting the reflection of the sun from the winter shelter......... the result is grass growing taller than Grant (72 + inches)as of last weekend.......... we are considering cutting it for firewood in late August.....

BooB