Will I make it? Jeep project!

[David Dunlop]

Is there any sign of the yellow paint between the Green and Red, Lars, or just on the wheel rims?

The reason I ask is that during the war, RCAF jeeps were the same green as the army ones. IF, it was an RCAF jeep, and IF it was in use on the field a lot, they were often painted yellow to make them easy to see by pilots landing aircraft.

Here in Canada, during the war, there were many Flight Training Bases across Canada. Many of these had Emergency Landing Fields built nearby: a small triangle of runways with a parking pad and single hanger at one apex. I know nothing of their staffing, but as an emergency field they may have had rudimentary emergency vehicles. In the 1980's a small civilian airfield north of Winnipeg, at St Andrews had a 'Fire Fighting Jeep' on hand they had inherited from a closed RCAF Station. It had a heavy duty overhead rack supporting several sections of wooden ladder and the rear cargo area had been modified to hold a number of very large, portable fire extinguishers.

That could be another possibility for the history of your jeep. Or not.


Have fun with the project.

David