Wartime pictures wanted: CMP F15A

[Alex van de Wetering]

Utrecht F15A Bedford Portee2.jpg

Cross reference: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/at...8&d=1542234336

Utrecht 1945
source: https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/

[Owen Evans]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Utrecht 1945
source: https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/

Nice photo Alex!
Is that front diff painted white? I thought they generally only did the rear one.

[Maurice Donckers]

Front diff can be painted white again , My F15A had rear diff painted white with black number on , and front axle had a white bar painted on it .

[Owen Evans]

Originally Posted by Maurice Donckers

Front diff can be painted white again , My F15A had rear diff painted white with black number on , and front axle had a white bar painted on it .

Thanks Maurice, I didn't know that about the front diff. I wonder: what did they do with the 4x2 trucks? A white band on the beam axle maybe?

Owen.

[David Herbert]

This is only speculation but I think it is possible that there was a general instruction to paint white patches on diffs (meaning REAR diffs) but that some squaddies, having been programmed to do what they were told and not to think too much, got carried away and painted them on front diffs as well.
Certainly you never see convoy lights to illuminate the front diff.

I think white front diffs is not correct practice although certainly was sometimes done.

David

[Alex van de Wetering]

With the risk of getting crucified....I am attaching a picture of a Chevrolet C60L in this Ford thread.....but, I hope I can get away with it.

It clearly shows a white painted front diff cover. My thought was that during a service, the front and back diff covers might have been accidentally switched....but that theory won't fly on a Ford axle!! And to be honest I hadn't noticed the white painted front diff on the F15A picture I posted earlier.

Alex

picture source: https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Here's a brace of F15A's, somewhere in the Netherlands.

More interestingly, the two on the left have had their cab roofs removed. Had not seen that before in the NW European theatre of operations.

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