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The same??
Well the Scandinavians do get along very well, but we have had our disputes and wars during the history but that's a long time ago now...
And the most important thing is that a MV is saved, not where. And it has pussled me a long time why not all Chevs did get the 270 engine... It is a big different from the 216. But recon it has something to do with the english officials, they was not happy abouth those big engines... did it have something to do with the lisence calculated from horepowers needed to be payed every Year? But that should not be the biggest espences in wartime... I also think I have heard that they called the Chevs "cauffins" when compared with Fords, i.e. when driving uphill to get away from enemy fire the Fords did get you away, but the Chevs did not... Rolf |
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216 question
Rolf asks (sorry for the pun my friend, not intended) about the choice of 216 Chevy engine. Here is some information from the DND papers that I have posted before:
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The Canadian GMC 248.4 cu in. unit had a bore and stroke of 3 23/32 x 3 13/16 and production started in August 1940 and finished in June 1941: 6,573 in 1940 and 10,464 in 1941. Compare this with total 216 (and 224?) production for 1940 and 1941: 71,627 and 106,935! No attempt was made to produce the 270 GMC unit in Walkerville. As you know the 270, imported from the US plants was requested for the C60X, and then installed in armoured CMPs. However, Ford offered their Lincoln Zephyr V-12 for a 6-wheeler CMP, and the Chrysler straight eight was trailled in a VC60X airportable. Why the Chevy-based Pontiac 224 was not chosen as this offered more power, and was used in Maple Leaf trucks, I have no idea. I can only surmise that the commonality with the US 216 that was mass-produced, and the thought of spare parts supplies in the future, led to the adoption of the 216. |
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Shottersbrooke in the 1970's
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radio truck
HELLO PETE
Are you saying it was richard beddal that rallied the radio truck in the seventies if so do you know if he is still around as i have often wondered what happened to the rear body heater the instruction plate was still laying in the back when i got it so its poss it was there at some time. regards vic .
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Re: radio truck
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RADIO TRUCK
HI PETE
Thanks for reply do you still have your truck from those days they seem a long way off now dont they we still keep ploding along but no rallys these days most have gone from this aerea so its just short trips around the local town etc regards vic .
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Back in the late 1990s these photos appeared in a magazine asking if the CMP had survived, to my knowledge it was a no reply. It was parked up near Invergowrie Bay in Scotland, well did it survive?
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Chev Wrecker...
John Marchent's Chev wrecker @ auction
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Rare Truck...
Photo taken at auction when John Marchent sold it.
Where is it now?.....
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Re: Chev Wrecker...
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Re: Chev Wrecker...
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Look back at W&T No. 17, it was on the front cover, just after he restored it, also inside it is featured in a Before and After.
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Apologies......too quick off the mark. I do have the auction catalogue somewhere with the prices reached, but don't suppose I put buyers down unless I knew them.
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A couple more of more recent times at War and Piece last year
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that c15ta is/was owned by an old fella whos name escapes me, but lived nottingham way, uk he was doing an impressive job of rebuilding and putting right what was previously a real bodge restoration at the time. i bought a weapons carrier from him and the c15ta was his pride and joy amongst his collection which didn't seem far from finished when i saw it in 2003ish???
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Came across a few more CMPs for this thread first more on the Scananavian GMC 6x6
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John Marchants GMC armoured ambulance at Southsea i think on its first or second season following a total restoration
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A couple more GMC armoured trucks
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I could not make up my mind as to where this shot should go but found this one so here goes, This ex military has to have been the armoured truck at one time and seen here in 1957 with a much modified front, cab and stretched chassis. This photo was taken at Brighton in Sussex during the annual speed trials on Madiera Drive and would have been a support vehicles
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Seen in France, 15 years ago
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I was having a browse though some old D.Day tour photos the other night, and came across this one, which shows a 12 cab FAT, complete with limber and 25 pounder. All I know is that it belonged to a chap from Paris, who drove it to the Normandy area for the 50th anniversary. enjoy Keith |
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I came across http://miliblog.co.uk, a "sort of on-line museum and database" website run by a certain Mr. Simon Sage, who has been in the HMV scene quite long appararently.
Mr. Sage provides a nice overview of pictures of preserved CMP's taken at shows over the years at http://miliblog.co.uk/?cat=159. Where are they now? Check for other vehicle types too, hundreds of pictures on this site. - Hanno
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Ford CMP Ambulance- Where is it now
Back in the late 60s as a teenager I visited a Sugarcane farm near Sarina Queensland and saw a complete Ambulance in quite good condition'.
I was later told it had been sold to a restorer so I would think it would now belong to someone on this site. Anyone with this history on your Ambulance? Does the site have a listing of members vehicles??
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Similar F30 Cab 12, source miliblog.co.uk
Also: where is it now?
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I am pretty sure those to are not the same vehicle. the one in Denmark was in pretty bad shape and requiered restoration when Kim and the other owner got it.
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