Can you identify this truck?

Originally Posted by cletrac

You guys forgot about cwt. This stands for hundredweight..

I might be able to help here:

c = Roman numeral for "100" and wt is of course weight.

For some reason a cwt is a little more than a hundred pounds.

Some of us over 50 will remember interminably chanting the weight relationships at school. . . . Anyway cwt comes from here:
16oz ~ 1lb
14lb ~ 1st (stone)
2st ~ one quarter (28lb)
4qtr ~ 1cwt (112lb)
20cwt ~ 1ton (2240lb)

Up to our "metrication", commercial vehicles carried a large sign-written "plate" that defined the unladen and laden weights of the vehicle in tons, cwt, quarters and lbs; it needed to be large to get it all on!

For D-Day ship loading a similar format was used but only recorded the as-loaded vehicle weight and dimensions, a standard paint stencil was used with the various figures chalked-in. You can sometimes see this in period photographs.

To this day we refer to people weight in stones as kg only conveys anything to the medicos.

Therefore a 30 cwt is a little over 3000 pounds load capacity. In civvy truck terminology this would be a 1 1/2 ton truck.

A fair bit over 3000lb, being 3360lb.

R.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Richard Notton

Some of us over 50 will remember interminably chanting the weight relationships at school. . . .

And I got a wack over the knuckles from a bitch attired in black robes from head to foot , if I forgot those weight tables .
Catholic schools were charming and delightful places to spend ones childhood .

Mike

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

And I got a wack over the knuckles from a bitch attired in black robes from head to foot , if I forgot those weight tables .
Catholic schools were charming and delightful places to spend ones childhood .

Ah you had one of those too Mike and I thought only New Zealand had them!

[Keith Brooker]

ww2 amb.ww2jpg.jpg Morris used in German Ambulance unit.

austin in snow.ww2jpg.jpg Austin used by Germans.
Photos are from my own collection of British Trucks, Cars, Ect used by the German army.


1944 Morris C8 GS
1938 Humber used as a staff Car