Chevy from Spain

[Javier de Luelmo - Diesel]

Hello David. The Barcelona factory was only taken by Franco troops near the end of the war, so the Chevy must come from another source. I have somewhere a pic of one of the chasis-cowl models built by the anarchist as they ruled the factory along the war. There's also some interesting footage of the "Durruti Column" (Durruti was the strongest and most famous anarchist chief) exit from Barcelona in route to the front in Aragon. The convoy is a motley group of vehicles, but there appear some GM products like Chevrolet and Bedfords (if I remember weel with open cabs and even in 6x4 form!). Will try to find pics tonight.

Franco had a quite big fleet of Ford and Chevrolet trucks. It seems a lot of them were procured through Portugal with the very special assistance of the March Bank (a very well known family from Mallorca), who also had good contacts in America, specially at Ford and Standard Oil, who procured petrol for the nationalist army.