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Truck, 3-ton, Signals Line Construction (Chevrolet C60S)
Does anyone know if there’s a survivor of this type somewhere?
A long time ago, Johan Dieffenbach in Belgium fitted a US K42/K43 body on a C60S chassis: Sometime after 2014, the body was transferred back into the Chevrolet 1.5-ton chassis/cab it came off originally:
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Vehicle code 60444-M-SLC-1
Grant Bowker wrote about this type:
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4K1 Signals Line Construction body vs. Signal Corps K42
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I also looked up the body type, the 4K1 was a "special steel Telephone (Signals Line Construction) body (...) similar to the standard commercial vehicles used for telephone construction work": I also compared it with the body on the US Signal Corps' model K42 or K43 (G7173) which is of similar construction but shorter. So the Chevrolet C60S shown above as assembled by Mr Dieffenbach, was the result of some artistic license. That body was put back on the type of chassis it was originally fitted to.
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A well known period picture.......and even though the hint is in the description I only recently noticed the body of this truck.
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source:https://recherche-collection-search....2827&q=3392827
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Nice find!
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Survivor?!?
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Perhaps this is one of the photos...
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...d.php?p=294931 Maybe you have a more direct link to the photo? |
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I think Grant might be right....reading the original thread with John's pictures, the comments and the MIKAN reference.....it sounds like the same picture in this thread; "PA-115018" from the Canadian Archives.
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Some very nice period pictures can be found on the RCsigs website:
http://www.rcsigs.ca/index.php/CMP_L...l_Construction Nice BIG maple leaf on the side and "Canada" written on the rear!
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Grant, Alex, thanks for that.
In my enthusiasm of finding a survivor I *assumed* the photos which John posted were of a survivor, rather than a wartime photo. Mystery solved, dreams smashed - thanks! Quote:
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I can understand why Mr Dieffenbach wanted to build a recreation of this interesting truck. Source: http://www.rcsigs.ca/index.php/File:..._rightside.jpg
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By the way....interesting to see the two-tone look of the example in the picture......shift in base colour?.....or just a difference between base colour used by the supplier of the body and the GM truck?
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