Half-track GM trucks
 

I am writing a piece for a 'new' Brit magazine on the half-track Bedfords. I thought I would add some photos and information on the Holden # 13 CMP half-tracks. Can anyone advise in brief please as to how GM-H became involved, and whether they used a Carrier bogie as Vauxhalls did with the QL?

Credit will be given + free mags!

See CMP Half Track.

H.

Thanks
 

...King Thread-finder. I remember it well but, and please excuse my ignorance here, was the Holden tracked bogie anything to do with the Ford Carrier version? Am I right in suggesting that the Holden CMP dates from 1944?

Half track
 

I've just interviewed Mike Cecil on that very subject for the upcoming Carrier DVD, although not in complete detail...

The CMP half track was one of several experiments to create a specialised vehicle for beach transport during landings in the island campaigns. Other vehicles used were Ford/MH and International Harvester.

It used adapted Carrier bogies and tracks with a Chev differential, but after trials was abandoned because of relatively slow road speed, noise and the unsuitability of steel tracks on hard road surfaces, and at any rate the US-built half tracks with their rubber tracks and more powerful engines were becoming more available in the area so the CMP and other indiginous half-tracks were abandoned.

Not sure of the date but it has steel doors rather than the canvas covered lightweight doors which would indicate 43 or early 44.

Half track International:

Half track Ford MCP (not Marmon-Herrington):

Half track Chev with US bogies unit and carrier track:

Carrier bogies?
 

Please indulge me: would the Ford MCP have used a modified Carrier bogie? Thanks by the way for the information guys.

1934/5? Thorneycroft
 

http://www.photoarchives.co.uk/pixcma/04083.jpg

Any idea which model please? It was also used in conventional 6 x 4 form with road wheels. The location is probably Brooklands.