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I found a Fordson Van on the Internet. I send an e-mail, but haven't got a answer. Maybe the interior is the same.

http://www.shuttleworth.org/images/fordson.jpg
source: Shuttleworth Collection

Same vehicle, other site
http://www.highwaygold.co.uk/hqimage...6/DSCN1947.jpg
Source: HighwayGold Photo Gallery

http://www.geocities.com/britsatwar/fordwot2hvan.jpg
source: http://www.geocities.com/britsatwar/transport.html

Cheers,
Arjan

Here's some pix Mike Timoshyk sent me that he took inside a wireless van at the Canadian War Museum. He didn't say but it looks like a 15 cwt.

Hi Hanno
Should have joined mlu ages ago but this thread has prompted me to do so!!!

The vehicle in question doesn't have a radio body. At least it isn't the House wireless Type 3 which you are discussing. Differences between the Type 3 used for radio are the one from the museum are: no rectangular window which overlooks the cab, no aerial mast base above this window and no smaller aerial mounting posts on the front nearside edge. No generator doors with louvres on the near side or rear Rh side. No spare wheel mount on the roof (that i can see). Most noticeable are the larger windows (two upright frames where the wireless house has only one). I think it's a recorder vehicle as i've seen pix of similar types the iwm archives. i was there two weeks ago looking for Wireless body pix.

Regarding the Shuttleworth WOT 2H, I was asked to look at it by the Collection last month to assist them in identifying what it was. There's nothing inside!! I don't know exactly what goes inside the recorder vehicle I'm afraid. But the new owner doesn't need to look for the radio body interior as it's not a radio body, so that should save some cash! Recording data for intelligence for battlefield analysis or radio broadcast seems likely. Wonder of the BBC letters on the truck were added later??

I have 2 house wireless bodies (enough to make one!) which includes an interior but i have no photos either!! The other pix posted showing the inside and open door are the earlier wooden bodied version (look at the planks) which is why they are shown in the desert. The steel bodied version never saw action except in NW Europe on the lengthened C4 Mk 2 chassis. This is confirmed by my Dad who worked in one in Normandie. When he was posted to Palestine after the war they were supplied with the earlier version in wood, left over from the desert campaign, much to their discust!

Anyway I hope this helps Hanno + other members

cheers
simon

CWM wireless truck

The CWM's wireless is on a CMP F15A chassis. It came from the collection of Andre Gibeau, along with Mercedes described as either Hitler's or Goering's. The body is a 2K1 (the aluminum skin in steel frame type) making the whole assembly a wire-5.
The Gregg data book only lists the wire-5 on C15A chassis (like the KL welder was only on F15A), so I don't know whether this body has been transplanted or whether the wire-5 was built on both frames.

I think this is a RAF Morris WT. Photo from my collection

Quote:

Originally Posted by cliff (Post 96596)

found the photo below in the same batch as the CMP wireless truck I posted earlier which leads me to believe it may be the interior of the same truck.

AWM caption ....

ID Number: P04632.003
Maker: Bilney, Leonard
Place made: North Africa: Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: Portrait of signaller K Wood, G Signals Section, 2/12 Australian Field Regiment, 9th Division, inside a signals van, operating an AWA or Standard Telephone and Cable (ST&C) No 109 wireless set. He is wearing headphones and operating a morse code key.
Credit line: Donor L Bilney
Copyright: clear

The set is a Australian STC W.S. 109 , total production of these was around 1500 units from 1939 to 1942. These sets are relatively scarce now but there are a few examples to be found if you are lucky. I have successfully used one of these sets on air in the AM mode between my location and Adelaide, a fair distance. The transmitter has provision for either a xtal frequency or the VFO. Unlike many other sets, the internal layout allows for easy access for repairs of the receiver and transmitter .

Change of subject: I did have a 1944 RAF manual for the MW Bedford fitted with a house type body . In a moment of madness I gave the manual to somebody..can't remember who.

No.19 set in a 15 cwt truck

In WftW, page WS19-73 to -77 are the diagrams for the installation of various No. 19 sets in the 15 cwt truck. The illustrations show: No. 19HP in a Wireless house type, Mk.II and a No. 19 in a house type Mk.III, and a No. 19/19HP in a truck 15 cwt, 4x2, FFW.
The latter is a soft top vehicle. These illustrations show the mounting of the sets, but not the complete interior of the house. There is also an illustration of the aerial mountings on the Mk.III vehicle.
Also, I recall there were other sets used in these trucks, but I can't remember what they were.
Hope this helps.
Ian Cooper