Bombay Chev

[cliff]

Bill I am sure there is more in my archives and as I 're-find' them I will post if I think they are new ones.

I am just in the process of totally tidying up and adding/replacing and properly identifying a lot of pictures and when I have finished doing this I will send you a couple of new disks and also update and renew my 'Roo's Truck Archives" on armorama.

I am also trying to remove any double ups of pics at the same time.

cheers
Cliff

[Bill Murray]

Cliff:

Best of luck on the "tidying". I am going through the same thought process and I wonder if I will live long enough to ID all of them and get rid of the duplicates too. I hope my photo editing program will help but I fear every time I change the photo ID the program will not recognize the new name and if I have it two/three times it will not alert me.

I spent an hour fast forwarding through the discs you sent as well as the Mr. Roo site and alas, most of the ones I thought were Bombay Chevs were in fact India Pattern Ambulances which have already been pretty well covered.

I also spent a half hour on Google trying various combinations of words to see if anything would pop up but without success.

Eventually, we will find a good source for these Indian sourced vehicles I am sure.
Bill

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Nick Balmer
The same file on the following frame has a very good overhead shot of a CMP Number 11 cab?

http://imagen.britishpathe.com/scrip...00000009&sif=0

This must be a very early example of an Indian Pattern body on a CMP chassis, as distinct from a militarised civilan chassis.

Thanks Nick, excellent shot of a type of CMP I have never seen before. Must be an Indian assembled one, as it has typical features like the soft top cab without windshield and basic angle-iron-and-wood GS cargo body. This must have been the forerunner of the other Indian pattern 15-cwt CMP you spotted on Pathé.

Cliff, Bill, thanks for your input as well. Indeed, eventually we will find a good source for these Indian pattern vehicles! Anybody here with a distant cousin in India?

H.

[cliff]

Hanno this may be what you are after......

Pic from AWM data banks

[cliff]

or this.............

how about this one too

number 3 as well

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some more Indian Pattern Chevrolets:

"Three men standing in front of a truck. Date [ca. 1940 - ca. 1941]"

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Source: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/309759


"Brahmaputra ferry to Burma. One of the British soldiers who run the Brahmaputra ferry takes control of a truck heading for Burma. Pte. Chapman (Mooreswater, Lisheard, Cornwall) Three-quarter length, to left, wearing overalls and brimmed hat, tattoo on right forearm."

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Source: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/4171058

[Bill Murray]

Cliff/Hanno:

I think Cliff you are getting a real good handle on the smaller Chevs and picked up a couple of new ones. I had not been looking so much for those as for the 30CWT, I think, and the 3 tonners.

For whatever it is worth, I have put the word out on Swedish, German, Russian and Australian sites I belong to to see if we can flush out someone who either has direct input to our research here or can put us on to someone else who has such info.

I wasted another hour on the Google search engine trying every combination I could think of and only came up with Unit histories, Regimental histories etc. and essentially nothing on GM India or Ford India that was worth squat.

Sadly, 30 years ago I made some excellent contacts in India mainly regarding ordinary American cars sold there and got some interesting stuff. That was when Volvo trucks was trying to sell trucks to the Indian Army and we also were negotiating with the TATA group for license production. I remember we sold a few specialist trucks there but TATA preferred to maintain their licensing agreement with Daimler Benz which I believe remains in force to this day. All I ever got was postal addresses and I doubt they are still usable today. Most of my contacts were already 50-60 years old back then.

As a side note, I tried to get into the Bharat Rakshak discussion group forum tonight but got so tied up in trying to register with Yahoo.com, which you have to do do get into the Forum, that I finally gave up.

Let us keep on trying. These trucks are very interesting and I would like to get a complete story and photo archive of the whole lot of variants if possible as I am sure you would like to also.
Bill

[cliff]

yes Bill I have added about 600 plus pics since I sent you that last updated disk. Finding it hard to do much else at the moment due to a rough patch. Never mind still a lot of valuable info has turned up doing it. A lot of Jap IJA trucks and tanks as well as a lot of info on Aussie WW2 made aeroplanes and the numbers built. Even found a sad pic of hundreds of Beauforts being broken up for scrap in 1947.

Also added a lot of aussie armor pics as well. BUT my main focus is on softskins still and I am still on the prowl.

Cheers
Cliff

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
See Indian Army vehicles for a link to a picture of a similar(?) Dodge woodie in service with the Fifth Indian Division:

Another one of these?

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/AFS.../AFSL22-06.jpg
Caption: AFS staff members [in India], halted by a swollen river, anticipate a meal of sweet corn roasted by friendly natives who swam the river to get it.

Source: http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/AFS...etters/22.html

[Davistine Liddle]

Someone has posted these pics on Teambhp Forum. Now I am posting here.I think it's from some album it states "SHOT TAKEN IN RUN FROM POONA TO SECUNDERABAD WITH CSBC SEPT 1941"(INDIA). I am trying to get more photographs from him but till now no success. Expert kindly comments on this what does this CSBC means. Admin if this post is irrelevant kindly delete this Thankyou

[Ron King]

Poona to me used to be a Australian training camp in Australia.
It had a railway platform called Poona about 3 km away from the main camp which still existed until the early 1980s.
I think the location was north of Albury......west of Wagga on the main southern railway line.
Some of the back ground in the pictures remind me of the areas country side.
A Photo showing a truck, some troops and a Poona sign earlier in this thread may be from the area I described.

[Tony Smith]

Wasn't Kapooka?

[Lang]

Only Australian Poona I can find is near Fraser Island in Queensland.

The AWM caption on that Poona photo says it is Karachi with airmen on their way to Poona RAF Base.

[Ron King]

Originally Posted by Lang

Only Australian Poona I can find is near Fraser Island in Queensland.

The AWM caption on that Poona photo says it is Karachi with airmen on their way to Poona RAF Base.

My mistake...the place I was thinking of was called Polona.