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15-07-09, 22:43
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I have seen that the SDF had used 'Maple Leaf Chevrolets' and thought it could have been a wheel of such truck. But going to this thread:
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...d.php?p=116426 I would say....rather not. 
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16-07-09, 00:13
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Hello Kuno
 I saw some Maple Leaf trucks elsewhere, that had the same "open spoke" wheels... but at the same time I saw some Canadian Chevrolets that had factory open spoked wheels but that in French use had 10-stud rims like that pictured in my previous post, so I asked all the same... Can anybody confirm Canadian Chevrolet CC60L truck use outside of the Free French forces then? It seems they were the only one to use them in North Africa. The LRDG didn't use them AFAIK.
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16-07-09, 00:41
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I looked through my Chev photos and found a mixture of 5 stud and 10 stud 18 inch military & 20 inch Civilian wheels amongst the 1941 YS model Chev used by Australia but none showing 16 inch 10 stud wheels.
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16-07-09, 04:00
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I can't recall which thread it may have been in (Indian Pattern Chevs??), but these pics were posted by Mike Kelly:
PS: Kuno and Rob, read the book and love it!
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16-07-09, 04:53
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Corowa Chevy
At the last Corowa I attended , three years back , a chap turned up with a very odd 1941/42 open cab chevy truck. It was fitted with 10 stud military 16" rims . I'd never seen rims like it before . People were commenting , saying its a Indian pattern truck ? I recall it also had 1939 model dash gauges fitted . I have a few pics of it somewhere .
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16-07-09, 08:00
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I got some pics too  It was at Corowa 2007, when we met for the MLU group pic. Think you're talking about this one, it's Barry's, Keefy knows him.Greetings Chris
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16-07-09, 10:15
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Hi Chris Yes thats the one thanks .. those 16" rims are different to any other Chevy found here  It does appear to have been imported at some stage ..possibly by the AIF Could have been assembled in Bombay or Cairo . The owners would know more . It's a odd ball for sure.
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16-07-09, 14:17
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 Those rims in your pic look like the (older?) type used by the LRDG Chevrolet WAs, which hadn't a "flat" disc like the one I posted and possibly had a different stud spacing, while still being 10-stud 16" rims. Quote:
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19-07-09, 13:07
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It seems to me that the SDF truck pictured in the MLU Forum post I referenced is a Chevrolet 1543X2
 comparing it with this picture from http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12940 which I had overlooked. It clearly has 10-stud rims which seem to correspond. So actually I should be able to answer my original question whether the SDF had trucks with 10-stud 16" rims... Does anybody find mistakes in my identification of the truck or other considerations?
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