Truck ID Please

[Bill Murray]

OK guys, after an hour or so of perusing Crismons book, several of Bart's books and some other reference materiel, I am calling this a Federal. Could be 39 or 40, they looked almost identical.

At this point, I cannot pinpoint the exact model as reference materiel on Federals is very scarce. How it got that obviously military style body is also unknown to me. The crew cab is prototypically one used on the searchlight carriers and may have been transferred by one of those British coachbuilders. The rear body looks very "official military" as well and reminds me of some bodies used for supporting artillery units.

A nice mystery in any case and I will keep looking and hope you guys do as well. One thing I need to do is puruse my Wheels & Tracks collection as I would bet Bart probably ran across this one at some time. I really need to spend a marathon weekend scanning those magazines but as I have all of them it will take a hell of a long time.
Cheers

Bill