FAT Fast brothers Prairie Command restoration

[Barry Churcher]

Rob, this is a different pulley than the one in the photo but it is supposed to be out of a FAT. I have posted on here before how a friend of mine's father who was an RCAF mechanic stripped vehicles at the disposal site at Hagersville Ontario at the end of the war. This is where all the vehicles that Elliot's in Newtonville bought. Bruce Parker's FOX for example. He would put radios in one pile, extinguishers in another, tools in another and so on. All the piles were bought by scrapers or surplus dealers. Much of it went to Levy's in Toronto. As sometimes happens all the pieces didn't get in the right pile if you know what I mean. Anyway he gave me this block and a couple of other things when I became interested in military vehicles. He remained a mechanic his whole life.
The snatch block body is 9X11.5 if I remember correctly and has a 7/8" shaft.
I used this in my tow truck for years.

Apologies to Bob C. I never got any notifications about additional posts on this thread so until today I hadn't looked at it. I am finally no longer on the dial up from hell so things go a little smoother.
Cheers,
Barry