CMP Roof Hatches

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

The roofs without hatch.....you see them a lot when you start checking pictures closely. First I thought the closed roofs might have been fitted to non frontline-vehicles, like the C60X Machinery trucks, Wireless vehicles and medical vehicles........but, they also appear on 3 Ton GS trucks in 1944/45 liberation pictures.....both on Chevs and Fords.
Ian could be right here.....contracts were leading (?)

Here's another photo taken during the liberation of Valkenswaard, the Netherlands, 11th of September 1944.
About half(!) of the CMP trucks shown do not have a roof hatch.

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[Alex van de Wetering]

Hanno,

Do you know where this picture came from? I see Dutch Lions on the front clips and 5-digit numbers on the doors.......wonder if it could be a post-war picture in stead of 1944?

This doesn't distract from the roof hatch situation though......plenty of examples of 3ton trucks without the hatch!

I will try to post another interesting picture tomorrow......(cliffhanger!)\ )

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Do you know where this picture came from? I see Dutch Lions on the front clips and 5-digit numbers on the doors.......wonder if it could be a post-war picture in stead of 1944?

Hi Alex, you could well be right... I found it here https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-h...kenswaard.html and here https://www.rd.nl/artikel/348872-dee...ert-bevrijding where it is credited to the ANP. I did not check details on the photo.