Wartime pictures: 20-cwt trailers

[Hanno Spoelstra]

20-cwt water trailer towed by a cab 11 or 12 60-cwt truck.

Who: Canadian army?

Where: the Netherlands?

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[Alex van de Wetering]

20-cwt water trailer towed by a cab 11 or 12 60-cwt truck.

Interesting picture, Hanno. Judging from the angles of the engine cover, it's a cab12. The body looks like a British built wooden GS body to me.

Is that the Guards Armoured divison sign on the fender? If the AoS is the same as the Bedford QL behind it, than it could be "Armoured Brigade Motor Batallion", Guards Armoured Brigade.
Background does look very Dutch, by the way!

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

Here is a picture from the Groesbeek museum website. (I added a bit more contrast and sharpened it a little)

Alex

source: http://www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl/

And a bigger copy: http://perssupport.nl/apssite/persbe...nlandoffensief

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[Alex van de Wetering]

20cwt trailer in Groningen

source: http://beeldbankgroningen.nl/

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[George McKenzie]

I have a axel with 1100x20 tires on it .It had springs on it. Bud wheels ,5 bolts .Could have been from a trailer like this??

[Bob Carriere]

But it seems all the GS have wooden boxes........ were any made with steel GS configuration in 20cwt.

We have the frame of a water tanker trailer with the old civilian 8:25 x20 rims.

Help my failing memory but was the steel GS trailer on 16 in. CMP rims only 15cwt capacity?

Cheers

[Grant Bowker]

There is a steel 20 cwt GS described in the AEDB design records. Like the wood bodies it has the stepped sides. The 15cwt had flat/vertical sides without the step.
Normally, the 15cwt had 16" wheels and the 20cwt had 20".
The 20cwt isn't listed as using any 10ga steel, only 12 and 14. But - some of the 12ga has stiffening corrugations. Are you thinking of building a body for your chassis?