CMPs in Asian campaigns

[Les Freathy]

Also in Burma this 3 ton CMP with soft top and high sided wooden body

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Les Freathy
Also in Burma this 3 ton CMP with soft top and high sided wooden body

From http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

Photo No.: CI 864
Photographer: Breeze (F/O)
Royal Air Force official photographer
Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.
Collection No.: 4700-18
Description: RAF groundcrew take a stand-up lunch on a forward airstrip in the Arakan.
Date: c. November 1944

[Hanno Spoelstra]

This is a 15-cwt, towing a limber.

Photo No.: SE 3892
No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit
Title: THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1945
Collection No.: 4700-64
Description: CMP 3-ton trucks make their way across a temporary bridge over a 'chaung' on the approach to Rangoon, 26 April 1945.
Date: 26 April 1945

[Les Freathy]

This a local bodied utility which i think was built on a 15cwt not the 8 cwt and used by the RAF in Burma. I do have a better photo somewhere depicting a side view with the lads, i will try and locate it

[Les Freathy]

A 3 tonner with local body note the short overhang at the rear could this have been designed as a gun tractor, and are those truck side panels on the upper slope of the makeshift bridge

[Les Freathy]

One for luck, a row of CMPs and a solitary Dodge in Singapore, the building appears to be well burnt out

[Mike Kelly]

Lets not forget the distastrous Malayan debacle where some hundreds ? of cab11/12 DND pattern trucks changed hands .

Mike

[Grant Bowker]

My first reaction was that the building had been camouflage/disruptive painted "to make it dissapear in the bush". Apparently without too much success since all of the drivers found it.

[Lang]

Not exactly Asian but I did not know where to put it. Australian bliz gets a push from an American GMC. Song River New Guinea.

[Lang]

This is Asian but in Japan. Blitz being rtecovered by Diamond T

[Lang]

British army Korean workshop

[Lang]

Korean CMP water tanker

[Les Freathy]

15cwt CMP and others on a raft ferry, could be a Indian regt looking at the personel
Les

[Les Freathy]

At last i have located the elusive CMP photo of i am now covinced is based on a 8cwt chassis with local body work, the shot was taken in Burma and it serves with the RAF
Cheers
Les

[cletrac (RIP)]

Les, I think you were right when you said it was a 15 cwt chassis. Those aren't 8 cwt wheels and neither is the box.

[MurrayC]

I've had this photo for years and can't remember where it came from but I was told it was an Indian Gun tractor coming ashore in Burma.

[Lynn Eades]

There is something funny about that Dodge in the sixth photo.
The windscreen slopes back. It should be vertical.

[Les Freathy]

See what you mean Lynn but i suspect the screen is in the open position
Les

[cliff]

Originally posted by Lynn Eades
There is something funny about that Dodge in the sixth photo.
The windscreen slopes back. It should be vertical.

The windscreen is in the open position. These Dodges had a windscreen frame with seperate glass panel which is hinged at the top so it opens. The whole thing can also fold flat across the bonnet.

Cheers
Cliff

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Les Freathy
At last i have located the elusive CMP photo of i am now covinced is based on a 8cwt chassis with local body work, the shot was taken in Burma and it serves with the RAF

Les,

Very interesting picture. Nigel posted one showing a similar (the same?) from a different angle in Chevy Indian Backbody.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by MurrayC
I've had this photo for years and can't remember where it came from but I was told it was an Indian Gun tractor coming ashore in Burma.

Indeed, an Indian Pattern Field Artillery Tractor at Rangoon.

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

CMP truck loading a Catalina aircraft in Burma.

Photos by Jack Birns, dated March 1943


Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/as...JAFnWO_3XqOdOw

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Another photo from Burma, albeit postwar:

Burma
Jack Birns
1949-03


https://artsandculture.google.com/as...7QHMrwrxujUhMQ