help with ID please, FGT?

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Doug Carrs

Good to know the 15cwt are the same!

The Ford manual gives different part numbers for the 15cwt frame rails vs the artillery tractor, but looking at the two different frames here in the yard, I'll be darned if I can tell what the difference is. Pretty much all the holes required for the artillery tractor including the winch mounting are already present on the 15cwt frame.

[Doug Carrs]

Thanks Rob for checking, no reference material at this end yet. Starting to look like it is or was at one time a FAT. So going ahead with the Ford project. Frame hunting season begins....

[rob love]

The lip around the cab where the turtle shell meets the cab is the easy indicator that it was. But be aware that to complete the tractor, you will have to find a 25 pounder, then a limber, then all the tools that go with that. Trust me, it will be a very time and cash consuming project. Add to that you will need 6 dewat Enfields for the rifle racks.



It always amazes me at the condition of vehicles that the collectors in the East starts with. That level of rust through on sheet metal would normally condemn a vehicle in this part of the country. If you like, I can keep an eye for a frame for you. They exist in nice shape out this way, although too often on a kijiji ad the sellers think they have gold.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

You can skip the 25pdr, limber, scotches and simply go with the FAT radio van...

[rob love]

Well that is one way to keep the driver warm....put one of those toaster ovens on his back.

I can't imagine how that would even fit in there.

[Bob Phillips]

Just a couple of points..most gun tractors seem to be equipped with extra overload leaf springs in the rear, but not all.. anybody know about this feature?
I bought a Ford guntractor/ tow truck many years ago from a small rural garage in New Dundee Ontario. It had been bought new in 1946 from the Ford dealer in Kitchener as apparently they were given first offerings of new military vehicles at the wars end. It came with a stylish rear body which included rear wheel skirts. It was equipped with a hand powered weaver car crane, The operator told me the winch was only used to pull customers out of the ditch or etc. It survives, restored to this day in the Hockley Valley!