YOUR DODGE D-15 pictures - wanted!

[Pete Ashby]

Possibly Erwin it's hard to tell, what do you think the base color is there? is that what I've seen described as light mud ?

Pete

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Pete Ashby

Possibly Erwin it's hard to tell, what do you think the base color is there? is that what I've seen described as light mud ?

Pete

Pete, the picture you posted of the water bowser with snow chains on I think: YES.
The model picture I posted I think could rather be S.C.C.2 brown.
But as usual with colours on b/w pictures or drawings: guesses only;-)))

[Erwin]

Look what I´ve found on Pinterest (Source: https://pin.it/huobaqqbo7gxxu) :
an ***original picture of a "Desert D-15"***!!
So it´s no more speculation...the "black swan" truly existed;-)

Very interesting on a side note: the cargo body appears to be a field modification to allow for more space. Someone realised that the rather generous waste of space for a tire holder and spares box could be better used for the cargo body directly neighbouring to the drivers cab;-))

And I do admire the drivers: I took my D-15 2 times to a historic drivers´ venue at Senica/Slovak Republic ("SLOVENSKY PIESKY/SLOVAK SAND"). There is a huge military area which was used during the war by the Deutsche Afrikakorps for training as to their unique natural deep sand deposit. I found it almost impossible to drive there further into the compound without 4WD.

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Thank you all for contributing here and PLEASE keep on posting PICTURES of this beautiful little lorry/truck!!!!

Aren´t there any from recent British shows like War and Peace?

PLEASE continue:-) and nice Sunday
Cheers Erwin

[Simon Balding]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I have seen short footage on youtube or similar of a D15 without roof and doors and kitted out like it was to cross the desert.

The D15 uses the standard WD 6.00x16" split rim, so there would be no "building process" to fit these to the Dodge axles?

Hanno, I have a fellow D15 owner friend, who told me to watch the 1950's movie "Sea of Sand".
Its about a LRDG mission during WW2.
There are a number of possible D15s in the movie playing a prominent role as LRDG trucks. We have had a squabble about whether the D15s in the movie have been chopped up to look like the famous LRDG Chevies or if the D15 really was actually used for raiding by the LRDG.
I am firmly of the opinion that the the dodges have been "chevvified" for the film as the historical accuracy in the rest of the movie is a little off point.
E.G. Germans chasing the LRDG column in US international halftracks equipped with Bren guns.

As always I am happy to be proven wrong, and would love to see some photos of a "real" LRDG D15 even if the silly beggars had taken a hacksaw to those beautiful curves!

Anyway, its enjoyable movie if you can see past some of the questionable hardware.

A few screenshots for you to debate....

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Look what I´ve found ...the "black swan" truly existed;-)

Cheers Erwin

No, that's one of the movie prop vehicles from Sea of Sand, the same vehicle pictured in Simon's second pic. I thought there was a thread on MLU many years ago about this film.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Look what I´ve found on Pinterest (Source: https://pin.it/huobaqqbo7gxxu) :
an ***original picture of a "Desert D-15"***!!
So it´s no more speculation...the "black swan" truly existed;-)

Erwin, I am sorry to rain on your parade, and on that of Simon's friend, but the LRDG did not use D15's. The photos show film props, and anyone can see why the film producers used D15 as Chevrolet look-a likes. They make good stand-ins!

See http://lrdg.de/main.htm > Vehicles for a very comprehensive overview of the vehicles that were used by the LRDG.

HTH,
Hanno

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

No, that's one of the movie prop vehicles from Sea of Sand, the same vehicle pictured in Simon's second pic. I thought there was a thread on MLU many years ago about this film.

Here's a link: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...688#post135688

Originally Posted by Rob Beale

I found a DVD of the only LRDG movie, made in 1958, staring Richard Attenborough. It was in the bookshop of the Imperial War Museum at Stg 6.99. Its zone 2, but works on my zone 4 player in NZ.

The logo on the case is ITV, but I can't find it on www.itv.com

The trucks they use in the film are Dodges, made up to look like the late model Chevs, and some of the details are suspect:

The germans have US half tracks (of course), and the german tanks look like Pz III but could be painted pictures as they are in the background of one scene only

The trucks are marked as T patrol, yet have mixed crews including Guardsmen and just a single kiwi soldier!

His "lemon squeezer" is wrong, worn with the valley to the front, instead of the ridge. In fact it looks like an american army campaign hat !

Overall its a good yarn, typical of the post war era black and white war movies.

[Simon Balding]

A few more random photos

[Simon Balding]

And a few more...

[Simon Balding]

And now I get told off on from the forum for going too far off topic, but it had to be done...
Not even sure if its a Dodge, but it sure catches the eye. I think its from Mad Max Movie?

[Simon Balding]

Not a Photo of a D15, but I thought I'd share this photo of my Grandfather's RASC unit war diary in Italy 1944. Its an audit of the company vehicles including chassis number , WD number and contract number.
If anyone ever comes across any of those chassis numbered vehicles, do let me know...

Oh and I included another photo of one of my favourite standing orders from the company war diaries. Fishing with hand grenades...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Simon Balding

And now I get told off on from the forum for going too far off topic, but it had to be done...
Not even sure if its a Dodge, but it sure catches the eye. I think its from Mad Max Movie?

You started it.... here's John Belfield's Dodge WC-something

[Simon Balding]

Now thats a truck Id take into Leeds in Rush Hour!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Simon Balding

Not a Photo of a D15, but I thought I'd share this photo of my Grandfather's RASC unit war diary in Italy 1944. Its an audit of the company vehicles including chassis number , WD number and contract number.
If anyone ever comes across any of those chassis numbered vehicles, do let me know...

Oh and I included another photo of one of my favourite standing orders from the company war diaries. Fishing with hand grenades...

"Restoring a WWII Canadian Dodge D15 of the Royal Army Service Corps - A family’s generational love for those curves lead them to revive a WW2 Truck like the one their grandfather drove.
Simon Balding’s grandfather had been a Sergeant in the British Army during WWII. Of the many stories Sgt. Balding told to his grandson were a few of his “favorite” truck — a Dodge D15. Simon decided he would find his grandfather’s truck."

Read more at https://www.militarytrader.com/milit...r-those-curves

[Hanno Spoelstra]

D15 with census nr. CZ4218503, ex-Johan van Rijn in the Netherlands, sold to Belgium and then on to Simon Balding in the UK. Photos by Alex van de Wetering.

Pics of a D15 which recently changed ownership to follow sometime soon.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Pics of a D15 which recently changed ownership to follow sometime soon.

Here we go: this D15 changed hands in Belgium recently.

[Larry Hayward]

The drawing above from Erwin in Post #30 comes from a catalogue of 1/35 kits I think from ESCI that was planning to produce such a kit, but did not, much to my disappointment - I guess this would have been late 1990s.

[Patrice DEBUCQUOY]

Hi Larry,

Esci's Dodges were announced in their 1977 catalogue.
Here is another hope from the same catalogue.
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Cheers,
Patrice.