[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi All,

One of our members, Andrew Tostevin who is mad keen on WW2 radio restoration, owns this fully operational Chev Blitz C15 radio truck. The information is from Andrew and I took the photos at the Museum. I have already sent him this link and hopefully, when he's back on line, he'll personally subscribe to this forum. He is also currently restoring a C15A radio truck.

There will be five posts including this one purely for the images. Perhaps someone can educate me on how to place multiple images on one post, if that is possible.

The main radio is an Army version of a well known aircraft direction finding radio the AT5/AR8. In the army it was different in that it had a special "drop-lead" junction box, and different cables. It was called the 112 set and was used in place of a 133 set made by AWA. The 133 set was a much more powerful radio, but was not a receiver. I chose to restore a 112 set for both of my Wireless trucks, because of the higher technology and the 112 set also leaves the side table in the truck free for another 2 way radio - in this case I have chosen the late WW2 122 set. This means the truck has 2 crystal controlled transmitters and direction finding capability. As yet the direction finding loops have not been found or remade for this truck.

Bob