Killer CMPs
 

I remember some time ago seeing a CMP which had been involved in a fatal accident when pulling out of a driveway back in the 1950s.

Yesterday I found another...

Butter wouldn't melt in it's mouth...

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A C15A, I think started life as a silvan.

But something isn't quite right...

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Do you see it? Despite the grille, that's an entire Ford cab 'engineered' on.

Talking the owner, this was given to him some time ago, and had been a Rural Fire Service truck which had been rolled, resulting in the fatality.

Making it fit
 

A bit of gas axe technology was employed...

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Cab mount

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Most likely from a F15A, this was a sunshine roof cab which was converted with a lot of welding. The original Chev dash was used complete with late instrument upgrade. The wooden part of the steering wheel had been replaced with a steel tube version welded on.

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Keith - when you say silvan - do you mean 'civilian' or silvan as in the Dandenongs?

Sigvan??

Mike C

Sigvan
 

Autocorrect strikes again! It's actually north of Gundagai.

Ahh! So that must be a tuckerbox on the back with a dog shelter on top?

Tuckerbox
 

Of course! But this one is a little more than 5 miles north and a bit further to the east...