Reference: Top Bows - 15-cwt truck

[david moore]

Bob, Those longitudinal pipes that I gave you - I think the union join is bogus in that the original civvy owner of the F8 here in Kingston (a Mr. Montgomery!) had not realised that the front and rear transverse bows had an offset base to allow the bows to be flush against each respective end. Rather amazingly, he had installed them wrong way round - so needed to shorten the longitudinals by about 6 ins, to match! He cut and rejoined them as they are now. Too short for the correct fitting on the F8 which is why I passed them on! Jonathan now has my old F8 and could check the dimensions of the original existing transverse bows. Tom Lodge and I made the replacement longitudinals from commonly available conduit and they looked fine. The bows on the cab 12 F and C 8's were entirely different from the later C/F15A's - but the pipe may have been the same.