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Pictures of CMP trucks pulling trailers
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As I was asked recently for pictures of CMPs pulling trailers, I have posted a few here.
First, a couple of 20-cwts: Picture taken during the liberation of Amsterdam, Netherlands: Attachment 137907 http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/show...hp?photo=35739 Picture taken near the end of WW2 in Groningen, Netherlands: Attachment 137908 http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/show...hp?photo=52335 Anyone who can add to this, please do! Thanks, |
Trailers only or towed equipment?
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Do you want to include all towed equipment or only "trailers". Either way below is one of my favorites.
Cheers Phil Attachment 26664 |
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The idea is to show CMP owners what types of trailers were used behind their trucks. Your picture is a great example of a lowly Ben Hur trailer being lucky enough to be hitched up with a CMP truck ;) What is the date/location of your picture? I guess other towed equipment would be fine too, although threads exist for Bofors guns and the like. |
Signals Picture from Keith Webb's Oldcmp site
The photo is from Keith Webb’s excellent site http://www.oldcmp.net/
The caption reads “Ford F60L with a demountable body towing a trailer mounted generator. Thanks to phil Waterman I can tell you this is an S56 Shelter Box intended for use as a slide in radio or communications van in a US deuce and a half truck. The picture was taken in Victoria in the early 1950s whilst serving in the Australian Army.” http://www.oldcmp.net/signals.html Unfortunately at the moment the photos on page are currently unavailable. I particularly like this photo as it was the first time that I found an S56 signals body mounted on a CMPs, since then I have found other examples. Use of the US slide in Signals Bodies such as S56 which I have on my C60S and is explained on http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.com/RadioBox.html |
Thanks Phil!
The photo below features another CMP towing a standard US Army 1-ton trailer, this time an Otter (possibly one in use with a Engineer field coy). EDIT: this is a 20-cwt water trailer - not a 1-ton Ben Hur trailer http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/at...4&d=1057462422 Linked from On a Normandy beach... |
Another US-built trailer, this time one of the 1/4-ton variant:
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What a mungrel that would be to reverse.
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Ford F60L with Nunn Generator Trailer.
Caption for AWM 099953: "RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN, 1946-03-30. THE CREW OF UNIT NO 149, MOBILE CINEMA HQ, AUSTRALIAN ARMY AMENITIES SERVICE, MOVING OUT FROM CAMP FOR THEIR ALLOTTED FILM SITE. SIX OF THESE UNITS SERVICE THE AREA WITH DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMMES TWICE A WEEK AT TWELVE SPECIAL SITES." Note Truck and Trailer are numbered as a set. |
I think they all are
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The second point is that it seems to matter little what you are towing in way of a trailer behind a big CMP you can not see the trailer to back it up. That’s why the military had co-drivers to get out and direct. One last point the CMP style of spring mounted pintle clanks more empty or loaded than the US style. Though I have seen pictures of CMP trucks hanging from their pintles which I don’t think the US style could match. Cheers Phil |
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Here are some australian ones in the Pacific and Egypt.
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Photo of a C15TA pulling a 1/4-ton trailer - found on the internet.
Who knows more info like unit, location, date? Attachment 137905 |
8cwt trailer
Hanno,
Not 10cwt - 8cwt: a Trailer, 8cwt, GS (Aust) No.3 to be precise. You need Keith and my book on Aust jeeps and jeep trailers! :thup2: The CMP is a Chev C15A 15 cwt Battery Staff vehicle with an Australian Sunshine cab and No.2 all-steel body with valise lockers. Mike |
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Another C15TA pulling a trailer, a Canadian 10-cwt one this time. It's crossing the Berlage bridge entering Amsterdam on 8 May 1945, shortly after the German Army surrendered.
Attachment 137910 Source: https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/...b-e0707b34daed |
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