This came up recently in a post on Keith Webb's CMP facebook group.
I share this wartime photo here as I have not seen photos of these compressor trailers in use before.
Guillaume Lacroix wrote:
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Hello everyone, here is a picture from my late grandfather's private collection.
Unknown Sapper from 9th Canadian Field Squadron (Royal Canadian Engineers), performing road works using an air compressor towed by what looks like a C15 CMP.
Taken somewhere along the 4th Canadian Armoured Division frontline South of the Maas River, Fall 1944.
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Mike Calnan posted a photo from the Data Book of the 15-cwt version of this compressor trailer. Looking at the chassis in the photo above, I think that is the 20-cwt version.
The truck towing this trailer looks like a F60S "3-Ton 4x4 Engineers' Lorry with Body Type Winch":
