Cab11 F30S - border raiding

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by lynx42

Hanno, it is a good find and is relatively unmolested. Need a dog-box set though.

Rick,

It is a very good find!

See Were is it now - Ford F30 with No 11 Cab? for the pictures I was looking for - sorry it took me a while to dig them up from the MLU archives. AFAIK, this is the earliest type of body mounted on these trucks, they were built and fitted in the UK on the first shipments of knocked-down CMPs coming in. This is the type of body I would put on it. I reckon there's a chance the remnants of the cargo body on your F30 turns out to have been one of these?

Hope this helps,
Hanno

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

AFAIK, this is the earliest type of body mounted on these trucks, they were built and fitted in the UK on the first shipments of knocked-down CMPs coming in.

And here is a wartime picture, showing a pair of Fords with this type of body while training in the UK.
(Source: Army transport 1939-1945 - data book of wheeled vehicles / edited by David Fletcher.)

HTH,
Hanno

[lynx42]

Thanks Hanno,

Those photos will certainly be a help. The last photo is of Cab12's and on 20" wheels.

Picked up 3 16" wheels from Robert Pearce yesterday, so now have 5. One is wider than the other four. It is about 1" wider than the standard wheels so I don't know what that is off. At least I'll be able to unload it off the trailer ready for the next recovery.
Regards Rick.