Workshop Trucks

[Mike Cecil]

Engine number might help .... just a chance it still has the engine from when it was in service. Machinery trucks didn't do as many miles, or get treated as roughly, as GS trucks.

I agree with Keith re the small plate: it is the number of the front end sheet metal plate (stamped 'WO Front End') so not traceable to a particular vehicle from surviving records. But the date might help narrow things down a bit.

Mike

[DaveBuckle]

Thanks Mike - engine number is: WR3925878.
Story from seller was it was used in a shed to drive something via its PTO - which eventually seized. Condition of cab, floor, steps, suspension etc. and general lack of rust supports this.

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Dave,

I've come frustratingly close to that engine number: WR3925879, which was in a C15A, registration 141321, and all around your number, but not IT.

The records, particularly for longer-serving special vehicles (as workshop trucks were), are overwritten to the point of being almost illegible, so very difficult to track down. Still, the above gives you somewhere to start looking in AWM126 while you while away the hours under lockdown!!

Regards

Mike

[DaveBuckle]

Thanks again Mike - I was looking too high and right - where it is on my C15A.
Found it in the same place (of course) as my donor C60L that lives on a farm out west.
I see it as: 28443P00478?
While I'm feeling lucky - where might I chance across the (painted over) ARN?
Chassis No.jpg

[Mike Cecil]

Dave

The two flat panels on the front sheet metal below the windscreen, ie both sides. Numbers should be 3 to 3.5 inches high, white paint, five or six numerals. If 6, it will start with '1'.

Your truck was built/assembled in the GMH plant in Perth, WA - (the P in the chassis number).

Mike

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by DaveBuckle

Thanks again Mike - I was looking too high and right - where it is on my C15A.
Found it in the same place (of course) as my donor C60L that lives on a farm out west.
I see it as: 28443P00478?

So where dit you find it? Could you make a pic standing back and point it out on the chassis?

Thanks in advance,

[DaveBuckle]

Thanks Hanno - I can only post these pics I have at hand and give a description as by the time I get home from work it it dark this time of year.
Left pic is C15A - number is between the 2 holes in F/L chassis rail and centred vertically.
Right pic is C60L - number is much lower and finishes around forward hole.
The pic I posted previously (with a lot of glare from my torch) is the Workshop C60L - the digits are smaller and start right next to the forward spring hanger.
Not a huge difference, but enough to throw this novice off, am sure the old hands are familiar with.
DH Chassis No.jpg EU chassis No Enhanced.jpg