Cab11 F30S - border raiding

Howard · #1 13-07-10, 10:59

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Originally Posted by Max Hedges

...on cab 12s the louvers are a seperate piece that is bolted on and also ford doors didn't have a liner on the inside like the chev ones from what I have found...Max

Max, my remaining door on the old F15 has an internal skin. It may have been retro-fitted at some stage, however paint remnants match the rest of the body.(???)

Rick, nice find! Don't worry about what people say... I'm a fat bastard with size 11 boots & can still drive a 11/12 cab!

Max Hedges · #2 13-07-10, 12:58

Howard after further research cab 11 fords did have an iner skin on their doors
Max

lynx42 · #3 13-07-10, 14:01

Max, I'm glad about that as my right hand door has its inner skin and original handles and the left has the holes where the inner skin was screwed on.
Rick.

Hanno Spoelstra · #4 13-07-10, 19:30

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Originally Posted by lynx42

Hanno, it is a good find and is relatively unmolested. Need a dog-box set though.

Rick,

It is a very good find!

See Were is it now - Ford F30 with No 11 Cab? for the pictures I was looking for - sorry it took me a while to dig them up from the MLU archives. AFAIK, this is the earliest type of body mounted on these trucks, they were built and fitted in the UK on the first shipments of knocked-down CMPs coming in. This is the type of body I would put on it. I reckon there's a chance the remnants of the cargo body on your F30 turns out to have been one of these?

Hope this helps,
Hanno

Hanno Spoelstra · #5 17-07-10, 12:00

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

AFAIK, this is the earliest type of body mounted on these trucks, they were built and fitted in the UK on the first shipments of knocked-down CMPs coming in.

And here is a wartime picture, showing a pair of Fords with this type of body while training in the UK.
(Source: Army transport 1939-1945 - data book of wheeled vehicles / edited by David Fletcher.)

HTH,
Hanno

lynx42 · #6 18-07-10, 11:23

Thanks Hanno,

Those photos will certainly be a help. The last photo is of Cab12's and on 20" wheels.

Picked up 3 16" wheels from Robert Pearce yesterday, so now have 5. One is wider than the other four. It is about 1" wider than the standard wheels so I don't know what that is off. At least I'll be able to unload it off the trailer ready for the next recovery.
Regards Rick.