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Old 04-04-19, 13:59
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Originally Posted by Bob Carriere View Post
Second question.... concerning the origin of the brake drum posted last in Hanno's posting........... I have a similar picture taken from the wrecks of North Africa...... attached...... from the picture I have concluded that it is a Chevrolet chassis from the cleanly sand blasted sheet metal, indentation on the frame for locating a LHD steering box and the spring layout. The fender seems to indicate an earlier version of LRDG using a 38-39 or 1940 round fender model.......
This is not necessarily a LHD vehicle, in fact it is more likely not to be.

Canadian Built Ford, Chev and Dodge vehicles have the mountings for both RHD and LHD steering boxes on the chassis, even the CMP, although no-one has ever forund a LHD steering box that will fit a CMP chassis!
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