Bofors SP project

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #1 01-07-12, 12:45

Hi all - is anyone going to give me some advice or is this another Bob go alone project?

Bob

Keith Webb · #2 01-07-12, 12:58

Give us more info please Bob.

We did not have the F60B model here, although we did convert some Ford and Chev vehicles to mount the Bofors gun.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi all - is anyone going to give me some advice or is this another Bob go alone project?

Bob

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #3 01-07-12, 13:14

As I said in my earlier post, what truck and wheelbase is the Canadian F60B based on. I have a spare F15A but this could possibly be too small.

Bob

Luke R · #4 01-07-12, 13:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

As I said in my earlier post, what truck and wheelbase is the Canadian F60B based on. I have a spare F15A but this could possibly be too small.

Bob

Is there any chance of recovering a original bofors mounted truck and do many of the Australian trucks still exist?

Luke

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #5 01-07-12, 13:51

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version. I wonder if Ada will notice another truck in the fleet.

Ada

Me

Little Jo · #6 01-07-12, 15:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version. I wonder if Ada will notice another truck in the fleet.

Ada

Me

Hi Bob

I am sure Ada would not notice another truck if you kept moving them around so they don't stay in one place long enough for her to notice and if she did you could always say it was mine and I was storing it at your place because I don't have the room.

Cheers Mate

Tony

Hanno Spoelstra · #7 01-07-12, 20:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi Hanno - thanks for the information. By the looks of it I need an F60S as a starter truck. I really like the idea of re-creating the Canadian version.

Hi Bob,

Indeed you need an F60S with 134-in. wb. Make sure you get one with the heavy axles, steering box etc.. Maybe you could start with an F60L since you need to reengineer the whole truck anyway, so a cut 'n shut of 3-tonner chassis is a possibility?
Also, you need to recreate the No 43S cab, a special cab used only on the Ford F60B. This cab was a widened No 43 which allowed four abreast seating of the vehicles crew, all available space on the rear of the truck being taken up with the bed mounted 40mm Bofors gun, ammunition and gun stores. The four abreast seating was unique in that the driver remained in the conventional position with a passenger outboard of him and another two passengers on the left side of the engine. No roof or doors were fitted to No 43S cabs. This cab also has a conventionally sloped windscreen.
Then there are the four levelling jacks, plus the rear platform to fit the Bofors. And oh, it had transversely mounted fuel tanks behind the cab.

But you being an Australian, I really think you should recreate one of the Australian versions. . . . Look at this one - http://www.oldcmp.net/reff60sbofors.html - isn't it a beauty?!?

H.

Richard Farrant · #8 01-07-12, 22:15

These Ford Bofors (Canadian and Australian) would seem to spring from the Morris Commercial C9/B, which was an initiative by Lord Nuffield, as he could see the need for A/A cover in convoys. The C9/B had a PTO driven generator to run the gun, and there was a specially adapted carburettor which IIRC was to combat flooding when the gun was firing. I wonder if the Fords suffered this problem as well?

Luke R · #9 01-07-12, 13:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi all - is anyone going to give me some advice or is this another Bob go alone project?

Bob

Bob,
I think this would be a fantastic project and you should go for it!
The only thing ive got for a BOFOR is a deact AN 40mm Round with the wrong date so not really right for it.

Go for it

Luke

Hanno Spoelstra · #10 01-07-12, 13:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Hi all - is anyone going to give me some advice or is this another Bob go alone project?

Hi Bob, are you in a hurry to meet the next Corowa deadline or similar?!?

Here are some measurements for the "Ford F60B Bofors SP, lorry, 3 ton, 4x4, 40 mm, self propelled":
weight 6078 kg
length 6198 mm
width 2388 mm
height 2591 mm
wheelbase 134" (3034 mm)

Please bear in mind the Canadian F60B was a heavily reengineered vehicle with modified chassis, cab and many special fittings. If you really want to recreate one, maybe one of the Australian SP versions would be a better option.

HTH,
Hanno