1940 Break Down Chevrolet Holden MCP

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Getting back to the cranes and Chev trucks.
Recycling is a modern idea? No, look at this. Is that a MCP Chev and a Me 109 t.

Hello Mike,

Thanks for the movie. To hazard a squint I would guess that is a Ernest Holmes Twin boom crane. It looks different to the other option of the era a Gar Wood crane. The Holmes cranes had a circular central pipe with diamond shaped external bracing. The Gar Woods of similar capacity were twin booms too. However each side of the boom was made up of two rectangular beams laying parallel on the horizontal and they had series of internal diagonally placed braces.

The CMP Gar Wood accessed November 21, 2016 from, http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/g/gar_wood/gar_wood.htm Check out the slipstream buses too in the Gar Wood site. The photograph with the star on the door

Holmes Wrecker on CMP Accessed November 21, 2016 from,
http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/98900/S...s#.WDLqEn0wARk The CMP photograph taken from the rear view

It is a shame that the two Australian Army breakdown cranes are not as easy to identify.


A bit like recycling not being a new thing - I did not figure that Holmes made a tilt tray truck back in 1916. I thought they were a much more recent thing! The flatbed is chain drive and all the functions of the bed are cable powered. Photograph accessed November 21, 2016 from http://www.ebay.com/itm/1916-Ernest-...VVjugc&vxp=mtr

Kind Regards
Lionel