CMP shipping methods

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I agree..Chev Cab12's. Excellent picture



Early Ford F15 or F15A cab11 is my best guess. You can see the small radiator cap, Ford dash, and absence of door hooks and knobs for the cab vents.

Let me be a dissenting voice. I say Ford 11 cab. The instrument cluster and switches look Ford and you can see a rad cap on the cowl that wouldn't be there on a 12 cab.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Does anyone know where I can find a CMP in a box? There must be some stashed away somewhere.

(And 1st of Apr sometimes comes early.)

[Ed Storey]

I think the photograph needs to be flipped to get the instrument cluster on the correct right side.

CMP In a Single Unit Pack.jpg

[maple_leaf_eh]

Part of me looks at those 8 and 10 inch wide softwood boards and groans. Those trees were cut down a long time ago, and you just don't find that cut of lumber anymore.

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I think the photograph needs to be flipped to get the instrument cluster on the correct right side.
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Good morning Ed,
Are you sure the photo needs to be flipped? Doing so creates an unusual left hand drive CMP (steering column location as well as the packing location of the steering wheel)....

[Ed Storey]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

Good morning Ed,
Are you sure the photo needs to be flipped? Doing so creates an unusual left hand drive CMP (steering column location as well as the packing location of the steering wheel)....

Yeah, looking closer, I agree with you.

[Mike Cecil]

I've got a reference somewhere to CMP chassis arriving in Australia in packs/stacks of five. These would be bare chassis. I assume other components not supplied in Aust arrived in similar packs/stacks.

Mike

[Mike Cecil]

I have a document titled 'Boxing - Australia' dated 15 August 1941, for the supply of C018QF 158 inch WB 3 ton 4x4 trucks with full cab. It lists the packing method for 24 complete vehicles (less rear bodywork and spare wheel assembly) broken down by box contents, number of boxes of each size, box sizes and weights for each box type. Total shipping volume is 5,888.6 cubic feet, total weight is 179,620 lbs.

For example:

Frames (chassis) were boxed 6 per box, in 4 boxes = 24.

Engines were three per box, 8 boxes total = 24.

Wheels and tyres (96 total) are listed as 'loose' and not boxed.

Mike