Compare the differences between these two trucks...the top one is to S/M 2004 and is a EC098TFS. The bottom is a C098UFS and it has the 1940 style hood louvres. This was we can tell by its census number to S/M 2646, and thus a 1942 delivery IN THEORY, or at least a 1941 contract. Probably very similar to the earlier
EC098UFS CONTRACT S/M 2046 CODE VOK 3-TON DUMP TRUCK STEEL CLOSED TYPE CAB CANADIAN MODEL C098U 2-SPEED REAR AXLE 10.50 x 16 TYRES 158" w.b. STEEL FLOAT WITH HYDRAULIC TIPPING GEAR
I wonder if this was the sort of truck that was ordered for the London County Council and then taken over for airfield building work? It seems to suggest that the 1941 military trucks carried the 1940 front end.
I just noticed that the Afrika Corps truck looks very similar to the top one! I wonder if it was a similar truck, as sent out to Egypt..S/M 2037? This was for C60L, CC60LX2, F60L and I think C098TFS with a total of 6,847 trucks delivered by 30 June 1942, some of which went to Egypt!! I am pinning my suspicions on the captutred truck as being one of that contract.
To the list I should add another that I had forgotten about...the C196TFS!
EC196TFS Contract S/M 2048
CODE VOM 3-TON CHASSIS & STEEL CLOSED CAB MODE; C196T 2-SPEED REAR AXLE 7.50 x 20 TYRES 176" W.B.
DELIVERED TO CANADIAN FORESTRY CORPS.