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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra
a Canadian Chevrolet which "looks like a C15A with 20-in. wheels or possibly a CGT and is described as a 'Chevrolet 3-ton 4x4, 101-in. wb, Compressor, Modified'. The body is unmistakably British."
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Sometimes it pays off browsing through an album with pictures showing "Canadians in England" taken in March 1944. Many of these picture we have seen before, the ones posted here we have not. There were, evidently, at least two more CGT's were converted to carry a compressor: H4217218 and H4217239. They still sport their H-census number denoting they were built as a tractor initially.
The one on top of this page has the same style of rear body, though that one is fitted with a full Cab 13, rather than the CGT cab blanked off as one the two pictured here.
Who has more information about these conversions?
If anything, they give today's restorers a rebuilding option for many of the CGT's surviving without the Gun Tractor body.
H4217218:
H4217239:
Source:
Army Numerical S874-S1439 Secret 2/3 (35mm) - North West Europe - Album 109 of 110 Dates(s) 1942/12/20-1944/11/26.
"File consists of one album containing 87 pages covering the numerical range S-874-S1439, with gaps. Each page of contact sheets shows several Army Numerical series photographs. The photographs are arranged both numerically and (roughly) chronologically and depict Canadian Army operations in Northwest Europe during the Second World War. The print album was originally used for DND photo reference purposes and may show censor marks, and other notations. "