How To: 1944 Chev HUW restoration

[David Dunlop]

Evening, Bruce.

Is there any hard pipe and muffler set up in this vehicle for the Chore-horse, or does it just free breath in its Compartment with its mushroom muffler fitted?

David

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Evening, Bruce.

Is there any hard pipe and muffler set up in this vehicle for the Chore-horse, or does it just free breath in its Compartment with its mushroom muffler fitted?

David

The chorehorse exhaust elbows to a pipe fitted through the cabinet floor, which pipe then runs inside the vehicle (acting as a heater perhaps?) exiting through the vehicle floor so venting under the vehicle. Photos show no mushroom muffler so perhaps there was sufficient noise deadening with the 4 feet or so of steel piping. When I fire it up I'll let you know!!

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I hauled it out of the garage today to turn it around so I can work on the cab. Space is not something I have a lot of so such maneuvers are necessary. Still, I was able to get some 'outside' pics.

[8threcce]

Looking great Bruce!

[Mike K]

Was the wireless set in the HUW demountable for use as a ground station ? Along with the chorehorse and batteries which would have been set up on the ground ? Did the HUW carry the golf bag 34ft mast kit and the long range wire antennas ?

[8threcce]

Don't believe it did, for what I have seen sofar is dat the wireless was mounted on the wirelesstable directly behind the driver and co driver in a fixed setting.
It did carry the golfbag and antenna mast which was mounted to the truck

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Was the wireless set in the HUW demountable for use as a ground station ? Along with the chorehorse and batteries which would have been set up on the ground ? Did the HUW carry the golf bag 34ft mast kit and the long range wire antennas ?

Yes, the 19 set was 'quick release' in two ways. If it was on the No.23 wooden board (the HUW also used the British HP set and Canadian Amplified 19...both not all that portable) it could be slid off its No. 1 rails and carried off to a trench. Alternatively the entire table with the radio and Charging Switchboard No.5 could be removed, as could the seats (all three) and battery trays, so completely portable. Everything was clamped to the floor with 5/16 threaded nuts capped with the same cast wheels used for the CMP windshield arms. The generator was on a metal tray that slid into rails in its cabinet, so again portable.

The wiring. The truck was 6 volts, and the back running its own 12 volt system completely independent of the truck. On the left side, screwed to the forward face of the generator cabinet was a switch box that connected the generator to either the battery sets or the radio and was used when the 19 set was in the truck. If removed, the same switching was accomplished by that No.5 Switchboard under the wireless table.

There is provision to mount a 20' or 34' telescoping mast on the outside right, its base on the running board and clamped up near the roof. There is also straps on the inside top tight that may take one of these masts but I think was a leftover from the 11 set.

[Mike K]

OK the HUW crew members would have been busy lifting all of that heavy equipment in/out .

The British No.9 set was also setup as a ground station as seen in this film.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189873

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Dutch C8A HUW "CZ 4210417" set up as a radio post at Longues sur Mer, Normandy, June 2004. Not sure if this is an accurate display, but it gives an idea.

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