Border raid .... Morris

[Mike Kelly]

This turned up here this morning ..... I plead guilty to a charge of border raiding

[cliff]

looks fairly complete Mike

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

This turned up here this morning ..... I plead guilty to a charge of border raiding

Hi Mike

Looks pretty complete. Another CMP saved from the scrappers. Don't recall our SA border guards having seen it cross from SA...

Cheers

Tony

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Nice Mike,
Do you think the low loader was a bit of overkill.....
Rich.

[Mike Kelly]

Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith

Nice Mike,
Do you think the low loader was a bit of overkill.....
Rich.

he he ..the guy usually carries bulldozers around with the big Kenworth .

The cast brass plate on the dash says 1941 like most of them do here. The steering whel is mostly rotted away ...a common thing .

The chassis is good on this one ........... phew As these are prone to rusting badly on these little trucks.

Tony , it aint a CMP but the CMP prototypes were based on these pre-war 1930's pommy trucks ... e.g., wheel size and the wheelbase is 98" .

With only around 21,000 CS8's made there are not that many left these days . And, considering that production stopped sometime around 1941 and they went through the early WW2 campaigns where many were lost in battle or abandoned to enemy forces.

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

he he ..the guy usually carries bulldozers around with the big Kenworth .
Tony , it aint a CMP but the CMP prototypes were based on these pre-war 1930's pommy trucks ... e.g., wheel size and the wheelbase is 98" .

With only around 21,000 CS8's made there are not that many left these days . And, considering that production stopped sometime around 1941 and they went through the early WW2 campaigns where many were lost in battle or abandoned to enemy forces.

Hi Mike

Thanks for the update. I am new at this game having only been a MLU member for just over 12 months. I am grateful for any information that will keep my interest going. I am sure as I learn more about other military vehicles I will regularly put my foot in my mouth again.

Cheers

Tony

[aj.lec]

Congrats Mike
Looks good
Is this the Queensland one ?