Kitchen Trucks

[John Sliz]

I'm sure that I'm not the only person who has built the model of the German Kitchen wagon. I don't know if this was the main transport for their mess or not. However, it made me realize that I don't think that I've ever seen the Allied counterpart. I'm pretty sure that our mess trucks were either 15cwt or some type of 3-ton. Does anyone know if they had special features or not? Any built in stoves etc.?

[cliff]

not sure about trucks but I found this picture of a Kitchen trailer in the Australian War Memorial data base

[Mark W. Tonner]

John;

Reference: Kitchen Trucks - Lorry, 3-Ton, Mobile Kitchen (3-ton, 4x4, 158 wb). I have better pictures, just have to find them, but I've posted this for now.

Cheers

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by cliff
not sure about trucks but I found this picture of a Kitchen trailer in the Australian War Memorial data base

Cliff, this is a Wiles cooker, several of which have survived.


Hassett's Uralla Military Museum




Bandiana Army Museum

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Cliff, this is a Wiles cooker, several of which have survived.

Keith,
Had a superb meal from one of these Wiles cookers at Corowa a few years ago, when they produced the Saturday night dinner from it.

Richard

[Noel Burgess]

this thread to pos some stuf I found on Baker Perkins mobile bakeries from this site: http://www.westwoodworks.net/contents.htm
the text on this picture is

“The Perkins patent steam oven of 1866 was adopted in that year by the War Office for use in the British Armies at home & abroad. It baked 90 four-pound loaves every 2 hours.
The mobile bakery of today not only bakes but mixes the ingredients, divides the dough into pieces, moulds them to shape and bakes them at a rate of ten thousand five hundred two-pound loaves per eight hours.
Depicted here in its regulation camouflage colours it is imposed on a background of view of a train load of field ovens leaving our works in 1914-18.”

[Noel Burgess]

Forgot to say that you need to go to the WW2 section (no surprise there) and there are several other interesting bit of info - including quite a bit on the artilery they also built.

here are two photos of the ovens, one of the mixing/moulding trailer and one captioned "testing a mobile bakery for the NAFFI (unknowm date)"

[Noel Burgess]

To finish my "bread thread" here are two from the Sikorsky collection and one from IWM

Noel

[Lang]

Richard,

Do you have a photo of the fellow with the field kitchen (I seem to think it had some convoluted story about being captured and used by the other team) who goes to the UK shows and bakes all sorts of delightful goodies?

Lang