C60L tanker truck

[Ilian Filipov]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Here are two more tankers, both labelled as C60L Water Tank Trucks.
Photos from the NIMH database.

Hanno, IMHO on the second picture is a petrol tanker. Who needs to split a water tank to two compartments? Also it looks on it the exhaust is re-routed (compare with the well visible exhaust pipe of the water tanker on the piture above it) and the tank looks bigger, 800 gal I guess.
Cheers!

[m606paz]

Petrol Tank

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[m606paz]

Water Truck

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[m606paz]

AEDB 800 Gallon Tanker

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[Martin Bendsoe]

Hi there,
Not to bring up the discussions on the C60S tanker (in model form by IBG - ups), but I find it remarkable that pictures of the C60L tankers in service with units at the front are almost non-existent (at least very elusive; I have not been able to find pictures).

AND following on another post here at MLU, I have on my hard-disk two pictures of an Aussie C60X 6x6 tanker refueling Mitchell bomber at an airfield in the Far East (my guess). In service!

I am new to this forum -- but have used it big style over the last years after starting building WW2 soft-skin models in Braille Scale. One very interesting find recently was that the Dodge D-series produced in Canada was only used in very few numbers by the Canadians. So back to CMPs!

Cheers, Martin

[Ed Storey]

You might need to research the doctrine involved in refueling Canadian units in the field which will probably account for why there are so few images. It may have taken place at night or most likely the refuelling was done at the front via jerry cans. As well, photographing vehicles being refueled was probably not a high priority for the photographic unit.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by martin bendsoe

AND following on another post here at MLU, I have on my hard-disk two pictures of an Aussie C60X 6x6 tanker refueling Mitchell bomber at an airfield in the Far East (my guess). In service!

I know this is slightly off subject, but a couple of weeks ago I took some photos of a C60X aircraft refueller at the Corowa military vehicle gathering in Australia and have attached a photo.

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

"IS C.W.T. petrol tender"

RCAF photo, No location, Date 22 Nov. 1941
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Source: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redire...81986&lang=eng