New Tobruk movie, cab 12 F60L

[Keith Webb]

This was the one I meant to post for Mike:

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

This was the one I meant to post for Mike:

Yes, I saw those pics too and wondered what type of truck it was? A Morris-Commercial of course, but not a GS or Wireless. Some kind of Office?

I think I have seen this type before in German use, assuming it was one of their extensive conversions!

H.

[Dinty]

G'day All, Some one needs to teach them how to block a 'slouch hat' also, and why would you have a fixed bayonet in a bunker? other than that I would love to see the film, and just after reading about "Kuno's" recent sojourn into the Libyan desert and having a really good browse at some of the links he provided, mate what a buzz that would be anyway cheers Dennis

[Alex van de Wetering]

It that case it could still have it´s orginal tyres. If not, someone in the Czech republic is making great looking tyres for CMPs!!!

Hanno, The tyres are 11:00x20 from the brand "Barum". Pictures attached.

Yes, I saw those pics too and wondered what type of truck it was? A Morris-Commercial of course, but not a GS or Wireless. Some kind of Office?

I think I have seen this type before in German use, assuming it was one of their extensive conversions!

There is a small book about Morris Commercial with 1:76 scale drawings and pictures. It's in the Bellona style, but I believe it was published by "Fingerprint designs", if I remember correctly. The book also offers one or two pictures of the Morris with Office body, as was used just before the war and at the start of the war. I have only ever seen a few pictures of this type of body, but they are British made, that's for sure.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Hanno, The tyres are 11:00x20 from the brand "Barum". Pictures attached.

Excellent! Have tried googling a place that sells them, but no luck yet. Oh well, I need to buy a Big Wheel CMP first. . .

H,

[Mike K]

The Morris looks to be a OFFICE bodied variant ... the roll out canvas awnings and the doorway screens sort of lead me this way . Photos of them are fairly uncommon for some reason .

The OFFICE variant was more common than we think e.g., contract V4152 of 1941 included: 635 OFFICE BODY , 842 GS BODY, 379 WIRELESS and 384 COMPRESSOR with pto .

Why no surviving OFFICE versions around today ?

Mike

[Alex van de Wetering]

Excellent! Have tried googling a place that sells them, but no luck yet. Oh well, I need to buy a Big Wheel CMP first. . .

Hanno, I did the same a while ago, but I didn't have any luck either. Barum seems to have been integrated in Continental tyres and their focus seems to have changed to pessenger car tyres. I wasn't able to find a trace of the tyre-profile as displayed in this thread. It was funny however that I did find some "Mitas" tyres which were offered as Barum, although the image did show "Mitas" written on the side walls; Mitas tyres licence produced in the Czech republic?? Also some other brands, like starmaxx seem to offer tyres with reasonable profile, however none of them resemble the tyres pictures in this thread.

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

The Morris looks to be a OFFICE bodied variant ... the roll out canvas awnings and the doorway screens sort of lead me this way . Photos of them are fairly uncommon for some reason .

Here's the first one I'd seen, hence my assumption it was a German conversion.



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