Brackets, braces and etc
Hi Keith and Bob,
Well for starters I think I'll just forget about trying to post images - I can scan them in Ok but that's where it ends for my PC ! The image I tried to send was of an example which used to be rusting away in the Blue Mountains National Park until it disappeared a few years back.
I have seen and even dragged home a few of the early cabins, all of which had at least one windscreen pillar broken and repaired over the years. These early brackets were hardly a monument to solidarity. I'm thinking toward strengthening brackets as their true purpose.
On the subject of branches catching the windscreen as the vehicle passes, from my own experience driving a cab 13 in close scrubby country, the branches had a habit of catching in the angle at the base of the cab 13 windscreen and top of the front sheet metal where the pressure would build up then catapault the branch down the sider of the vehicle and often whack the driver on the side of the head along the way.
Incidentally I have heard speculation as to why the windscreen angle was reversed in the cab 13. it is my understanding that this was done to reduce the reflection and thus aid camouflage from the air and on the ground, and also to provide an optically 'flat' view of the road ahead of the vehicle...
Cheers
Phill
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