Question on CMP 3-Ton Break-down Lorry (Wrecker)

[cordenj]

Chris,

I have been looking through my photo collection and found that there appears to be two types of rear used on the Chev C60s Wreckers.

Below are a photos found on internet and you can see the two clear variations.

Both seem to show a set-up similar to yours.

[Ilian Filipov]

Probably I'm not quite right but it looks to me that three of the quartet above are 4G2 bodies on SWB C60S and the one on the left below is body 5L1 on LWB F60L.

[Bob Carriere]

Thanks for the pictures John.

It does seems like both style of rear fairleads were used on wreckers..... I stand corrected.

Cheers

[Chris Preston]

Very Many Thanks John,

That's exactly what we're looking for - very helpful and much appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris, in Victoria (BC)

[cordenj]

Hi Chris,
To complete the set, here are some photos I took of the C60s Wrecker in the REME museum, formerly at Arborfield.

It has the same "underslung" hitch design as yours:

[Frantisek Nachlinger]

Few bad pictures of our Garwood Wrecker.. seems to be modified, too.

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

As far as I know were the "long" chassis used before the short ones. A friend of me here has one with the short chassis and its serialnumber and DoD are later then mine.
As far as I think the short ones are all the BRKD 5 model and from one single contract.

Greetz Hendrik

[cordenj]

Originally Posted by Frantisek Nachlinger

Few bad pictures of our Garwood Wrecker.. seems to be modified, too.

Hi Frantisek,
That's an interesting modification.
It looks like the original hitch has been replaced with a post-war one that can be rotated.
Do you know the post-war history of your Wrecker?

[Hendrik van Oorspronk]

Originally Posted by Frantisek Nachlinger

Few bad pictures of our Garwood Wrecker.. seems to be modified, too.

I am collecting contract and serialnumbers of the wreckers, are the dashplates still there?

Hendrik