Bofors SP project

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

As I said in my earlier post, what truck and wheelbase is the Canadian F60B based on. I have a spare F15A but this could possibly be too small.

Bob

[Luke R]

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

As I said in my earlier post, what truck and wheelbase is the Canadian F60B based on. I have a spare F15A but this could possibly be too small.

Bob

Is there any chance of recovering a original bofors mounted truck and do many of the Australian trucks still exist?

Luke

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version. I wonder if Ada will notice another truck in the fleet.

Ada Me

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version. I wonder if Ada will notice another truck in the fleet.

Ada Me

Hi Bob

I am sure Ada would not notice another truck if you kept moving them around so they don't stay in one place long enough for her to notice and if she did you could always say it was mine and I was storing it at your place because I don't have the room.

Cheers Mate

Tony

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version.

Hi Bob,

Indeed you need an F60S with 134-in. wb. Make sure you get one with the heavy axles, steering box etc.. Maybe you could start with an F60L since you need to reengineer the whole truck anyway, so a cut 'n shut of 3-tonner chassis is a possibility?
Also, you need to recreate the No 43S cab, a special cab used only on the Ford F60B. This cab was a widened No 43 which allowed four abreast seating of the vehicles crew, all available space on the rear of the truck being taken up with the bed mounted 40mm Bofors gun, ammunition and gun stores. The four abreast seating was unique in that the driver remained in the conventional position with a passenger outboard of him and another two passengers on the left side of the engine. No roof or doors were fitted to No 43S cabs. This cab also has a conventionally sloped windscreen.
Then there are the four levelling jacks, plus the rear platform to fit the Bofors. And oh, it had transversely mounted fuel tanks behind the cab.

But you being an Australian, I really think you should recreate one of the Australian versions. . . . Look at this one - http://www.oldcmp.net/reff60sbofors.html - isn't it a beauty?!?

H.

[Richard Farrant]

These Ford Bofors (Canadian and Australian) would seem to spring from the Morris Commercial C9/B, which was an initiative by Lord Nuffield, as he could see the need for A/A cover in convoys. The C9/B had a PTO driven generator to run the gun, and there was a specially adapted carburettor which IIRC was to combat flooding when the gun was firing. I wonder if the Fords suffered this problem as well?

[colin jones]

Hmm! just happen to have a few spare Bofors bits and pieces.

[colin jones]

Afew more and A few jacks around as well.
Colin.