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[Keith Webb]

Hi James, and let me add my welcome to you too.

Looking at your pictures the first one is a late production vehicle with the spring bumper in front of the bumper bar. The cab 12 in the background also appears to be a F60L, which is what the vast majority were.

As to ratios they will all be the same if they are F60Ls. The cab 12 chassis has a few points of difference to a cab 13 mainly in the cab mounts and pedals.

Never think you're wasting space typing here - we're all vitally interested in this stuff!

I'll be there with my video camera as usual so please come up and say hi.

Keith

Originally Posted by Jim Davis

So, that was in April last, year, and in the time since we've been obtaining documentation and learning all we can about them while slowly restoring one using parts from all three. I don't have the details with me currently but I believe we ended up with two Cab13 F60Ls and possibly a F15 monkey face. All 3 have had the frame cut back to the rear wheels and have had winches fitted very crudely mid frame, we believe they were used in timber country before being bought for the farm. Strangely the newest engine (1945) was in the monkey face while the two others had (from memory) 1941 and 1942 engines going by the "divers helmet" and the stamp at the rear of the engine.

At this point in time we have the best frame and cabin from a F60, diferentials, engine, and most moving parts from the monkey face, gearbox bits from all three, and part of the cabin from the other F60. It's turning into a bit of a hybrid of models , ratios, sizes of parts etc.

Anyway, I've wasted enough space typing, here are some photos of the two F60s, in the background of one you can see the monkey face at the shed. I thought I some more digital photos but I don't, I'll have to scan in some others at some point. The monkey face was the only one that was almost "drivable" but was really more weld than blitz, with pieces of railway steel welded all through the frame and on the front.