Under New Management

[Rolf S. Ask]

as Hanno stated in a post.....

Why not show us your pictures of vehicles used by the enemy?? Either Commonwhealt used by the axis or the other way round??
OK you might be allowed one US vehicle too....
And someone please tell me how to make the photos bigger with out redusing the resolution too much...

Rolf

[Keith Webb]

Hi Rolf

Unfortunately there isn't a really effective way to increase resolution - the problem is there isn't enough information in a small image to make it large and clear.
You can try enlarging something in Photoshop, but all you're really doing is making bigger patterns of the same pixels.
Going from large to small works - it just doesn't work the other way around.

Here's your second image enlarged in Photoshop from 229 pixels to 500 pixels wide. I have also done an auto colour and contrast balance on it.

You can see it is now a lot fuzzier than the original.

The solution is of course to re-scan at higher resolution if you can.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Best to scan as an uncompressed TIF file, then resave/resize as a JPG with moderate compression for posting on the internet. Keefy's right - you can't go back.

[Rolf S. Ask]

the problem is 102k file size, and I don't have my own web page, so you lads just have to live with those small photos...
anyone spessially interessted, mail me and I will send it to you.

Mike you will get all MC photos in time.

Rolf

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

The parameters for posting pics here are 600 pixels wide and no larger than 100 Kb... which means if you have a pic which fits the pixel width, you only have to save with greater compression. Whatever software you're using should have this option.

[Keith Webb]

Hi Rolf

Please feel free to email them to me - I'll host them on my site - that way they can be much larger and won't put a strain on MLU resources.

Keith

[Rolf S. Ask]

Now it is your turn

Rolf

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Rolf S. Ask
Now it is your turn

An early AEC Matador on the right. I think some that went to Norway had petrol engines, is that where the picture was taken?

Richard

[Rolf S. Ask]

The picture is not from Norway as far as I know.

Here is a Bedford
Rolf

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Rolf S. Ask
Now it is your turn

O.K. here we go - some more pics from eBay (item 6158528598)

eBay item 6158528600

eBay item 6156328280

Your turn again!

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

From a lot of some 50 phots recently auctioned on eBay (Item number: 6155913897)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
From a lot of some 50 phots recently auctioned on eBay (Item number: 6155913897)

Apparently these were taken somewhere in Afrika.

[Rolf S. Ask]

Here is another great shot, taken somewhere in Norway

Source: http://eggan.net/album/181/

Anyone having any info on the wireless body type?
Pictures drawings of it, inside and out?
And notice the "heater ting" on the front shield. Also the search light in the middle of the windows.
Rolf

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Rolf S. Ask
Anyone having any info on the wireless body type?
Pictures drawings of it, inside and out?

Rolf, a great picture indeed. As far as I can tell, it shows a Kfz. 17 Nachrichten Kw. (signals car), complete with cable reel holders on the front mudguards, modified from a captured Morris-Commercial. The German Army had a great variety of vehicles with these wooden bodies, all built to some standard design (see http://www.autogallery.org.ru/m/forv848d.htm for some pictures).

Are you going to build one of these?

H.

[Rolf S. Ask]

have any plans on building such one...
Guess my Morris will be "original", allthoe this part of the history should be taken care of...
But then, where to camp at Beltring ????

Rolf

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

A Wehrmacht Citroen.

[cliff]

Stellan what a fantastic cammo paint job. thanks for sharing that and it makes me think of doing a german truck just to do that paint job on

Originally posted by cliff
Stellan what a fantastic cammo paint job. thanks for sharing that and it makes me think of doing a german truck just to do that paint job on

Don't get too excited; its totally a French invention and as much Wehrmacht as a Challenger 2.

R.

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Originally posted by FV623
Don't get too excited; its totally a French invention and as much Wehrmacht as a Challenger 2.

So I think the Germans later repainted it according to Wehrmacht standards. Or?

Attached: Another Citroen in German service.

[Kuno]

Another one: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...163246410&rd=1

And this: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...162976127&rd=1

And this: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...162976433&rd=1

And this: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...162976433&rd=1

And this: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...163235192&rd=1

[Rolf S. Ask]

under new management

Source: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...162975952&rd=1

Rolf

[Hanno Spoelstra]

See http://beute.narod.ru/ for lots of pictures of captured Allied equipment. The page on COE GMC's contained a surprise:

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
See http://beute.narod.ru/ for lots of pictures of captured Allied equipment.

The page on M3A1 Scout Cars contains a picture with a nice truck in the background:

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The top one looked to my untrained eyes like a gantry ..Dodge WK-60?

Second I suspect is an ex-French order GMC AFWX-354.

The third I think is a 1940 Model Chevrolet WE, 131 inch wheelbase some of which were diverted to the UK and sold off onto the civilian market, so I assume that they were diverted from Antwerp...the featured truck may have been a sequestred Begian or Dutch truck although it could just possibly have been ex-Gennevilliers [GM France].

The fourth includes three? GMC AFWX-354 ex-French order trucks, with that crew-cab again. Likewise next one.

Wermacht [Heer] truck WL 314297 looks to me as though it is a 1939 Chevrolet COE, perhaps VE? The trailer arrangement is typical of those produced in the Low Countries, and I wondered if Hanno thought it was a sequestred Dutch civilian outfit?

These are amazing photos and proves to me that some of the French orders for Chevrolet and GMC military trucks did land on the Continent and were a nice present for the German forces...perhaps used on the Russian front? Having said that I would love to see a German Chevrolet Houlder-Thornton YR 6 x 4 as these were supposedly shipped after the Armistice.

Bart stated that a consignment of GM trucks was offloaded at La Rochelle, intended for the French forces but the Germans found them and had them asembled for their own use. Given known timing of the order placement in New York in 1939 and when the diverted crates landed in the UK, I wondered whether any of the AFWX trucks were included in the La Rochelle batch?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
The top one looked to my untrained eyes like a gantry ..ex-French order Dodge WK-60?

Did they French order those?!? As far as I know only the British did have the WK-60 with gantry recovery body - see Dodge trucks S/M 2023.

Wermacht truck WL 314297 looks to me as though it is a 1939 Chevrolet COE, perhaps VE? The trailer arrangement is typical of those produced in the Low Countries, and I wondered if Hanno thought it was a sequestred Dutch civilian outfit?

I have no idea, could be German Army as well.

H.

[Pete Ashby]

David

look up this link for the full story www.old-dodge-trucks.co.uk/dodge_wk60.htm
you are right about the COE being a Dodge WK60, if you remember my son also named David owns one.

Hanno you are also correct about British contract only, 741 in total delivered in 1941 to Kew London.

Pete

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Hanno, is the truck not rhd? Close scrutiny of my screen suggests under correction that it is. I agree, I discount ex-French on reflection. I suggest a captured Gantry truck to S/M 2023 ...were they used in North Africa?

L 4552457 to 4553198 [unless there were any Mid-East theatre Census Numbers in addition] 1940-41 Canadian Dodge Model DCM-4? [equivalent of the US WK-60] with Welles-Thornton rear bogie, Serials # 8,300,001 – 8,300,742? I say DCM-4, although it would appear that they were WK-60 chassis railed across from the Dodge truck plant in Detroit to Windsor and then 'assembled' to British specs. after addition of the Thornton bogie supplied by Thornton's Canadian agents.

[Bill Murray]

Just a quick note on the Russian site, and sorry, I am way behind the curve as Pat had to go to Arizona again for what I suppose is the last trip to take care of her Dad.

Is it just my browser, or does that site load slow as bloody hell??
Just on the GMC thread alone, I could have a fag, a drink and a pee before 4-5 photos would load up.

On the other hand, the photos are worth it for sure.
Cheers
Bill

[cliff]

Is it just my browser, or does that site load slow as bloody hell??
Just on the GMC thread alone, I could have a fag, a drink and a pee before 4-5 photos would load up.

On the other hand, the photos are worth it for sure.

yep loads slow here to Bill so it is not just you.

cheers
Cliff

[Bill Murray]

Thanks Mate!!!
Bill