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Old 27-11-06, 20:42
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Also in Burma this 3 ton CMP with soft top and high sided wooden body
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Old 28-11-06, 16:13
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Also in Burma this 3 ton CMP with soft top and high sided wooden body
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Photo No.: CI 864
Photographer: Breeze (F/O)
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Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945.
Collection No.: 4700-18
Description: RAF groundcrew take a stand-up lunch on a forward airstrip in the Arakan.
Date: c. November 1944
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Old 28-11-06, 16:24
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This is a 15-cwt, towing a limber.

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Photo No.: SE 3892
No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit
Title: THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA 1945
Collection No.: 4700-64
Description: CMP 3-ton trucks make their way across a temporary bridge over a 'chaung' on the approach to Rangoon, 26 April 1945.
Date: 26 April 1945
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Old 28-11-06, 19:30
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This a local bodied utility which i think was built on a 15cwt not the 8 cwt and used by the RAF in Burma. I do have a better photo somewhere depicting a side view with the lads, i will try and locate it

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Old 28-11-06, 19:33
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A 3 tonner with local body note the short overhang at the rear could this have been designed as a gun tractor, and are those truck side panels on the upper slope of the makeshift bridge
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Old 28-11-06, 19:38
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One for luck, a row of CMPs and a solitary Dodge in Singapore, the building appears to be well burnt out
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Old 29-11-06, 13:13
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Lets not forget the distastrous Malayan debacle where some hundreds ? of cab11/12 DND pattern trucks changed hands .

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Old 29-11-06, 19:26
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Default Are you sure "the building appears to be well burnt out"?

My first reaction was that the building had been camouflage/disruptive painted "to make it dissapear in the bush". Apparently without too much success since all of the drivers found it.
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Old 29-12-06, 05:26
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Not exactly Asian but I did not know where to put it. Australian bliz gets a push from an American GMC. Song River New Guinea.
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Old 29-12-06, 05:27
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This is Asian but in Japan. Blitz being rtecovered by Diamond T
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Old 29-12-06, 05:28
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Old 29-12-06, 05:30
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Korean CMP water tanker
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Old 09-01-07, 07:12
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15cwt CMP and others on a raft ferry, could be a Indian regt looking at the personel
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Old 15-03-07, 00:46
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At last i have located the elusive CMP photo of i am now covinced is based on a 8cwt chassis with local body work, the shot was taken in Burma and it serves with the RAF
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Les, I think you were right when you said it was a 15 cwt chassis. Those aren't 8 cwt wheels and neither is the box.
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Old 15-03-07, 13:06
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I've had this photo for years and can't remember where it came from but I was told it was an Indian Gun tractor coming ashore in Burma.
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Old 17-03-07, 10:41
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There is something funny about that Dodge in the sixth photo.
The windscreen slopes back. It should be vertical.
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Old 17-03-07, 14:35
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See what you mean Lynn but i suspect the screen is in the open position
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Old 17-03-07, 22:03
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There is something funny about that Dodge in the sixth photo.
The windscreen slopes back. It should be vertical.
The windscreen is in the open position. These Dodges had a windscreen frame with seperate glass panel which is hinged at the top so it opens. The whole thing can also fold flat across the bonnet.

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Old 17-03-07, 23:03
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At last i have located the elusive CMP photo of i am now covinced is based on a 8cwt chassis with local body work, the shot was taken in Burma and it serves with the RAF
Les,

Very interesting picture. Nigel posted one showing a similar (the same?) from a different angle in Chevy Indian Backbody.


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Old 27-03-07, 01:46
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I've had this photo for years and can't remember where it came from but I was told it was an Indian Gun tractor coming ashore in Burma.
Indeed, an Indian Pattern Field Artillery Tractor at Rangoon.

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Old 07-02-21, 23:52
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CMP truck loading a Catalina aircraft in Burma.

Photos by Jack Birns, dated March 1943

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Old 08-02-21, 00:04
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Another photo from Burma, albeit postwar:

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