Italian Pasta Trailer
 

Hi Lang:

Makes sense... I wasn't sure what mixture pilots breathe hence my guess at mixed breathing gas. A little follow up research led to this table (http://www.ww2wings.com/wings/italy/italymain.shtml) where I learned that IT fighters of WWII could reach an average ceiling of 35,000 feet so pure O2 would definitely be needed!

As for pasta making, I saw a science film in grade school that showed the annual spaghetti harvest and spaghetti, for one, defintely grows on bushes... other pasta may need a large trailer mounted compressor to squish out those odd wiggly shapes :p

Cheers! Mike

here are some more interesting trailer shots

lang

Another one at Alice Springs

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on Bougainville

Here are another lot of interesting trailers - if anyone wants to flick them to a more appropriate thread - feel free.

Lang

Chev and trailer (Australia)

French tank and tracked trailer captured by Australians in Syria.

German tank complete with transporter North Africa

Australian Federal - Occupation Forces Japan

The vehicles required to run a Lancaster squadron.

interesting enough this truck and trailer are loaded with bales of opium seed pods on their way to be processed into morphine.

Cheers
Cliff :)

This is the next flock of trailers. Once again if someone wants to "rethread" them - go ahead. All this stuff is Australian War Memorial library stock.

This photo although not showing a trailer says that these two trucks plus a trailer mounted generator form a complete radio unit. Thought the combination of the two truck types in one compact unit was interesting.

Blitz Semi trailers at Labuan, Borneo.

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This and the next one are boating in Lae New Guinea.

Lae New Guinea. I find this interesting because the trailer is backed down a ramp where the Lae Yacht Club now stands and the ramp is in exactly the same position (except beautifully concreted with a nice bar just off to the side!)

One for the Poms. British Army workshop locally constructed 100gal trailer Korea.

Australian Army trailer Helwan Egypt

A couple of fantastic WW1 photos of a Holt (Caterpillar) tractor with tracked trailers 1917

Holt Tractor 1917

Nice shot of a trailer coming off a barge at Labuan Borneo. Looks like he has stuffed up his reversing!

Australian Mobile Bath Unit Syria 1941

Australian Mobile Movie Unit

Lang,

The right hand truck being a British Bedford QL, rather an unusual body for that truck. The postwar census number on it plus the Allied star points to the picture being taken in Korea.

Richard

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The Rogers trailer to S/M 2060 I am sure has been posed on that village green not far from Kidbrooke...you know its location don't you Les?

The QL may have been a post-war rebuild by Marshall's of Cambridge who did work for the Ministry of Supply on behalf of Vauxhall Motors. Fords used their subsidiary Lincoln Cars in Brentford for rebuilds of carriers and engines for further use, but I believe Vauxhalls did not do any work directly. If anyone has any information on post-war CMP use by the British I should be interested: we know that the Southampton Plant worked on air cleaners for the M of S but I have no evidence that they rebuilt any vehicles for military service (all being for civilian sales).

There are I hope numerous trailer photos in our new book, unless the Boss edits them out!

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David,

I know you mentioned this before recently, the AC air cleaners would not neccessarily have been solely for CMP vehicles, because they were also used on Bedford, Austin, Daimler, Rootes, etc. military vehicles, so would have been required for the refurbishment of UK made vehicles in the British forces.

Richard

AC filters
 

Thanks for clarifying Richard. You are right...I am pretty certain that the contracts ran through 1956. This was the last remnant of "wartime" work. The cleaning of the metal inside required dosing in petrol..it must have been horrible work!

Here is another one from the AWM.

"DARWIN, AUS. 1943-11-11. TROOPS OF THE 5TH AUSTRALIAN DOCKS OPERATING COMPANY UNLOADING A LARGE OXYGEN MANUFACTURING TRUCK FOR THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE FROM THE SS MATHEW FLINDERS."

cheers
Cliff

Airfield Construction
 

Another from the AWM showing a tractor towing a road roller.

"WARDS STRIP, PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA, 1943-03. A MEMBER OF THE RAAF DRIVES A TRACTOR TOWING A ROAD ROLLER. WARDS AERODROME WAS WORKED ON BY BOTH NO. 2 AND NO. 5 MOBILE WORKS SQUADRON (LATER AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION SQUADRON). (DONOR G. CREAGH) "

cheers
Cliff