C60X Machinery bodies..Manuals of equipment? surviving "complete" examples?

[Noel Burgess]

Alex - I have some 1/76 scale drawings by G.W.Lacey which dont show any internal layout but do list the contents of the C60X machinery bodies as follows:

C - 3kw, 110 volt DC, Outboard Marine or Lryland generator driven by Briggs & Stratton engine; Leblond lathe, 30" centres, 17" swing; 3 speed Wells metalcutting bandsaw; portable drills & grinding equipment.

D - 3kw, 110 volt DC switchboard; South Bend 8187A tool room lathe; Peerless watchmakers lathe; bench drill & tool grinder; Portable heavy duty electric drills.

Dont know where Mr Lacy got his information from but hope this helps.

I also have 1/76 drawing by J.B. Church - again no interior details but he lists bodies 8L1 to 8L17 with 8L1, 8L2 and 8L11 being stores vehicles; 8L3 shown as not produced; 8L9, 8L10, 8L13, 8L15 & 8L17 being for the USSR. Canadian machinery roles are listed as A, B, C, D, F. Z. CZ and RE7.5kw.

Will be interested to see if anyonne can offer some more details
Noel

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Alex

My memory says that photos and layout diagrams have been posted on MLU but I have been unable to get the search feature to find them, maybe somebody else will get the search to work better.

In the mean time is are pictures 142-143 on http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.com/CMP84.htm truck you are looking for?

Cheers Phil

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's some info from Military Vehicle Profiles.

[Noel Burgess]

Those are great David, however I think the first picture should be described as a Role A not L.
Noel

[Alex van de Wetering]

Thanks for the responces, guys.

@ Noel. Very interesting. Indeed, It would be great to see some more "proof" of the descriptions of Mr. Lacey, but this is already a good start. Do the drawings and description also cover the other Machinery and Stores types?

@ Phil
Indeed, some CMP Machinery bodies have been covered on the forum before, but If I remember correctly, most were of the "Open" body type...the GS ones and not the ones using the Lindsey bodies......But, I will double check to be sure. The one I am after is the big boxy body as fitted to the C60X 6x6 as seen in Dave's post. The truck at Borden is very sweet and surely on my wish list when it comes to scale models; your pictures are very helpfull for that project and I also have some pics of the same truck from Keith's website and from a fellow modeller.

@ Dave
That's indeed the Gregg Publication I was referring to. It gives a nice list of the different models produced, but for my project I am looking for more detailed info. The top view and picture of the "L" type is basically what I am looking for for the C and D body types as well. Just as Neil wrote....it seems Dr. Gregg made a small mistake in the description of the body type, though.

I presume every different body had a separate manual, just like with the Diamond manual I have here. But....I guess those manuals are not very common to say the least.

Alex

[Nick Bullock]

Hi Alex
If the the model is anything like that Morris Commerical then it will be stunning!
Many years ago I looked over a manual collection at the long closed Museum of Army Transport. They held a huge collection of wartime manuals amongst them all a pile of Canadian 'SB' series body manuals. I have searched for years to find some of these and only found a couple of them. Sadly none of the ones I have are for machinery bodies. There may well have been something in one of those manuals should you be able to find a copy. I don't believe that I have even seen a complete lisiting of these manuals though an incomplete list exists in Peter Fords INFOEX Book.
kind regards
nick

[Noel Burgess]

Alex the drawings (2) list all machinery roles and the differances in door arrangement; if you PM your e-mail address I can send you details.
Also I have on my computer 4 images of the interior of a role A C60X - these were saved from a thread on MLU, they were photographs from a book in (i think) a canadian museum taken on 29/06/2007 but I can't find the thread and forgot to note the poster or thread number.

Noel