1944 C-15A-Wire-5 Restoration

[super dave]

A couple more, If you need a specific one just let me know.

[Bob Carriere]

Ask and you shall receive.............. thank you and thank you everyone.

Would still love to get a Hi Res picture sent to my email of the black panel..... from either you or Rob.

Cheers

[super dave]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Ask and you shall receive.............. thank you and thank you everyone.

Would still love to get a Hi Res picture sent to my email of the black panel..... from either you or Rob.

Cheers

Black panel ?? Do you mean the charging board inside the white panel box.

[super dave]

Also can someone tell me what this item is for hanging on the bracket ??

[Bob Carriere]

Yes please..... a hi res ...sent to my home email......I can enlarge the black panel inside the box at home and read the lettering.

Much obliged.

Bob C

[Robert Bergeron]

Just returned from Valcartier. Busy times .

Thanks Chris. Bought a little bottle of silica grit and it's going on the floor tomorrow. By the way , that little bottle is just like that foot powder bottle liberally distributed to us in the Forces when we undertake the 13KM '' walk in the park ''

Thanks Dave, those are great pictures. So great in fact that they made me realise that i am very far away from completion of this restoration. There are so many details i was missing before seing your pictures.

Bob ( Carrière ) , your friend still has time to catch up with me before i can get my hands on that control panel , fabricate a wireless table and a ''fridge '' door. We might still make it to Tank Day in Oshawa in May if he starts soon.

This is a great Forum , assembling together through our hobby great people.

Cheers and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Take a moment to think of and to thank our troops deployed in far away and strange lands so we can live free and safe during this period of the year when they are away from their families . I have a friend and collegue in that situation right now.



Cheers.

[David Dunlop]

Super Dave

The fitting in the bracket mounted on the upper corner of the side of your Gen Box is a heat shroud that is supposed to be clipped somewhere onto the Onan AC/DC generator to shield it's exhaust pipe and prevent it from overheating something critical. I have never seen an example of the model of Generator in question to understand why protection was required.

If the mounting bracket and shroud are original to your Wireless Box, then it was originally equipped with the Onan mounted on the floor and the chore horse on the upper shelf. My old Wire-5 Box had the same bracket and I found the shroud in a box at Princess Auto. The same Gen Box also had that big steel tray with the grab handle mounted in the floor of the Gen Box so it must also relate to the Onan, or it was a standard item for all boxes.

There is an instruction decal (white paper with red printing and border) that was put on the wall of the gen box just to the left of the shroud mount and it actually referenced the model number of the Onan Generator used in these trucks. Currently, my photos of that decal are in my 'No Can Find Collection'. Whenever it turns up I will post a copy of it.

The ratio of Onan/Chorehorse combos to all Chorehorse must have been quite low. Princess purchased a lot of some 100 Wireless-5 vehicles from War Assets or Crown Assets in the mid 1950's at a point in their service history where they had only ever seen wartime equipment in them. They were sold initially as complete vehicles. By the late 1960's Princess had started stripping the boxes off the cab and chassis assemblies and flogging them separately. For some odd reason the cab and chassis's were listed in their catalog as Dodge 3/4-tons even though the photo was a Chev CMP. About 40 unsold boxes and about a dozen cab and chassis assembles were still in the Princess Yard here in Winnipeg by the end of the 1970's. Only a half dozen or so of the boxes by then had traces of having the Onan bracket setup. Some of the boxes were being used for storage but most were still pretty complete .There were also a pair of Ford Cab 13 FAT's, a cutdown HUA a half dozen Halftracks formerly owned by the Brandon Construction Company and two or three Chev 6x4 CMP's, one of which had been a Dental Lorry. By the end of the 1980's all had gone to their Scrap operation north of town and were crushed.

David