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Old 01-07-18, 22:06
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I can't wait to see the restoration of this truck. I would have regarded it as too far gone but having seen the Tilly and Dodge ambulance threads I can see that it is just a matter of a vast number of man hours and we will see a new one for the first time in preservation.

I have been seriously interested in military vehicles for 50 years and have never seen a WOT8 in any condition at all. There should be a WOT6 in equaly dreadfull condition somewhere that could donate its transfer box which I assume would be the same. I wonder if there is a parts list out there somewhere? Does anyone know which units were originally issued with WOT8s and what bodies were fitted to them? Low volume trucks like this tended to be put to more specialist uses as that made parts supply simpler.

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Old 01-07-18, 22:18
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I can't wait to see the restoration of this truck. I would have regarded it as too far gone but having seen the Tilly and Dodge ambulance threads I can see that it is just a matter of a vast number of man hours and we will see a new one for the first time in preservation.

I have been seriously interested in military vehicles for 50 years and have never seen a WOT8 in any condition at all. There should be a WOT6 in equaly dreadfull condition somewhere that could donate its transfer box which I assume would be the same. I wonder if there is a parts list out there somewhere? Does anyone know which units were originally issued with WOT8s and what bodies were fitted to them? Low volume trucks like this tended to be put to more specialist uses as that made parts supply simpler.

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Hi David,
There is a restored WOT8 in Kent, it has been around the area for some years. The WOT8 is a 30cwt truck and like the Bedford OXD 30cwt GS, they had a short production span as the government decided that producing 30cwt trucks they could buy a 3 tonner version for very little extra and one truck doing the work of 2. If I remember correctly they were produced around 1941. I think all the WOT8 trucks were GS Cargo bodies.

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