Danish Army CGT
 

http://www.armyvehicles.dk/images/chevy8440cgt.jpg

According to the Danish Army Vehicles website it's a modified CGT which looks about right. I wonder whether any have survived in this configuration?

What about this one?
 

Keith,

what about this one: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/P...estoration.htm

bye, Alex van de Wetering, The Netherlands

Danish converted CGTs along the lines of the F22?
 

Alex, indeed Eric's CGT was once converted to a GS truck by the Danish Army. He is now converting it back to its WW2 configuration.

Keith, I have always wondered why the Danish Army modified these CGTs. Could it be that they had some F22s and liked them so much they converted some more?

Re: What about this one?
 

That belongs to our friend Eric Delcommenne, who has had a CMP website for many years. Eric sometimes visits here.

How's it going Eric?

Here´s one in the UK (courtesy of HMVF) which looks like it could have been one of these conversions.

H.

Hi all
Yes one have suvived in Denmark, its being restored, and there is rumors of another just be found. The army was surplied with american 105 mm guns at the same time as we got the Chevys, so they wanted a truck more like the short wheelbase GMC to haule the guns with. The flat bed is like the one on danish used Dogde Power Wagons just wider.
The army only had very few of the smaller CMP, like C8 and C15, it was mostly C60 they used.
And they didnt like them because of the pedal arangment.

Niels,

Using it as a gun tractor makes more sense than using it as a "squad-car" as the Danish Army Vehicles website suggests.

Thanks,
Hanno

It still would have had the gun crew at the back. its a danish word for the gun grew that have been transleted in to Squad, as far as I know
Cheers Niels

Here´s one. It was originally imported from Denmark by Army Cars Holland, and bought and restored by Peter Albers around the turn of the century.

Attachment 115581

Source: http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/show...e-cgt&cat=1112

Ah yes, all´s clear now!

Thanks,
Hanno

Nice to see that they still are about, all the Morris and Guys was worked to death by farmers

Here´s a larger version of the picture of the Danish CGT conversion.

Some new pictures courtesy of Danish Ministry of Defence:

Attachment 79601
"Title: Infantry Group in Chevrolet
Description: Infantry Group in a Chevrolet 8440 / CGT, which in the mid-sixties was rebuilt locally in Denmark from the gun tractor for group trailer. They were then used in the motorized infantry. Estimated year 1970"

Attachment 79602
"Title:Pick up the ammo 1970
Description: Soldiers from the army pick up ammunition in a bunker, located in a forest. Approximate year: 1970. On the boxes it says rifle ammunition and C1 B1 1967. Ammunition Bunker.

Here are some more pictures, since last I have found that one ex Danish has been rebuild as cgt in Holland and there two in flat bed rear body style surviving in Denmark

Picture courtesy of Arnoud de Beaufort‎ (Keep Them Rolling):

Mr. Evert van Luttikhuizen with his ex-Danish Army converted CGT.
Location: Otterlo, The Netherlands, ca. 1975

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Danish CGT conversion
 

Some more pictures of this conversion: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...9925501&type=3

For those who are not on FB, I will post some pics later.

Looking at the photo - We think driving a CMP in boots is a challenge, imagine trying to do it in klompen....

Thanks for posting this link Hanno. Even non Facebook members can browse through the picture page. I was trying to find some more pictures of Danish Diamond T 975's, but sadly only found just a few!

Alex

Yes it funny how little documentation there is of certain vehicles, This FB group has really brought forward a lot of pictures and histories, to the wider audience.
But it also show how bad we have been at preserving vehicles here in this country, as close to all of the Commonwealth and all the heavy american stuff has completely disappeared.

More pics
 

Here you go:

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