Anyone seen one of these?

[Lang]

Yorke-Hoover made he cable splicer trailers as well.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Neat little trailer. Not seen one of those before. A quick search yielded the page you got your info from: https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.co...odycompany.htm

And these two threads on well-known forums:
https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.ph...77565&start=15
https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/32350-what-kind-of-trailer/

It "appears to be some sort of communications trailer"

[Lang]

I was thinking of building a repro for a camper but looking at internal photos far too heavy and complicated.


Crossing the Rhine

[David Herbert]

The one crossing the pontoon bridge is different in that it has twin rear doors that are almost the full width of the body whereas the one at the top of this thread has a single rear door and the tail lights in the body either side of the narrower door opening. Possibly a different make for the same basic role ?

David

[Lang]

David

Seeing they are so rare you would think there was little call to give out contracts to more than one supplier. Stranger things have happened!

[David Herbert]

Lang,

Or possibly we are looking at early and late versions, or different versions for very specific uses. The rarity might be partly because they were quite useful but not as tough as the average truck and they all got battered to death. I had never heard of them before this thread.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I think the trailer crossing the Rhine is one captured from the German army or even a civilian one.

As these are so rare, one would have many degrees of freedom building a replica.

You may want to consider building your own trailer like the Canadian 1st Division did in Italy. I’ll look op the thread on here later, but basically they turned the back halves of GS trucks in trailers or built their own on any chassis they could lay their hands on.

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