FAT bridge plate

[Alex van de Wetering]

Mine is 21cm in diameter

I see a lot of small diameter flat plates on early Monkey face CMP's, but also on C15TA's here in Holland in 1945.....larger flat ones on Cab 13's, but also some with the fancy plate with ridge. Canadian Jeeps often show a large diameter plate with ridge from what I have seen......and the occasional jeep with a very large custom mate plate for red cross marking on an ambulance jeep.
I have no idea if there is difference between British or Canadian vehicles....or if it's more a matter of different suppliers(?)

Niels, thanks for posting those pictures and measurement; interesting to see an original plate!

I try to finish my FAT tractor ,

Sylvain, are you planning to have it done for D-day 75? Would be awesome to see your truck there!

[Owen Evans]

The attached is what I meant. If you compare the bridging plate diameter to the diameter of the headlamp lens (7 inch). As Alex says, often seen on the earlier (11/12 cab) CMP trucks.

Owen.

[Harry Moon]

I have examples of both and I would hazard that the edged ones were common on the headlight socket and the flat ones when it was attached seperatly from the headlight blank..

[Hanno Spoelstra]

The ridged plates are British, the flat plates are Canadian.

They doubled up as blanking off plates for the headlight buckets. They had holes to fit them in the headlight buckets and holes to fit them elsewhere when a second headlight was required. Compare with Niels’ example.

Of course when war progressed things got mixed up and troops used whatever was available from stores.

H.