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Re: Re: Re: Re: photos of engine cover detail
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Here the monster is dragged from it's lair of forty years and loaded.
Steve Stone that well know C30 11 cab OCMPG member ponders the meaning of true insanity back at our other workshop. I have to say here and now Steve was a real star and without his help for three weekends on the trot to prepare the truck for recovery David and I would have faced a consdirably harder task. Steve's mate Keith also deserves thanks for driving the recovery truck right through the middle of Bath with bits falling off, .........what me officer ?. Work is ongoing and it will be a few more years yet………… but David has a really pukka cab that we shipped in from the sates and is collecting all the hard to find bits on e-Bay. As the truck is basically pre war US commercial it's not as hard as you may think. The gantry body we will build from scratch using a friends as pattern..........unless we can find one. Pete |
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The Dodge WK60, one of my all time favourite trucks unfortunatly not a lot of publicity surrounded these vehicles imported to the UK as cab/chassis and then fitted out with the same british standard gantry recovery body as the Austin K6. Many were shipped out to North Africa and worked there way up through Italy others were issued to units in the UK prior to D Day, funny thing i have yet to come across aphoto of any in use in Europe following the landings. A further interesting point did they all make it across the Atlantic again never seen any records of vehicle losses on these convoys.
A couple of photos that may help Pete and David the first two are at the Dodge factory and depict how they were imported to the UK 2nd 3rd a view in the back |
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Is there any chance of some basic chassis measurements and details of the cab interior please? Thanks Cliff Pete as I was typing this You and Les posted the pics. Thank you both. I would also be interested in the measurements from a gantry body as well if poss. Last edited by cliff; 01-03-06 at 23:28. |
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Pete, have you ever seen this survivor? (advertised on Milweb)
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Source: www.hmvf.co.uk
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It could be
It's is the right size of cab, but if I'd just seen the picture I'd have guessed it was a GMC cabover compressor truck.
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Dodge WK60 in action during WW2. Date & location unknown.
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Great photo Hanno, not one I’ve seen before but I do believe I have another photo of the same vehicle either winching itself or being pulled out of a ditch.
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Some pictures of WK-60s in use with the Polish 1st Armoured Division courtesy of Tobias Siotor:
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More photos, some new, some already known.
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Plus sketches of the inside of the gantry body:
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