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Old 06-01-09, 00:01
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Default GMC AFKX 354 (french Contract)

Does anyone have any pictures of the inside cab ?
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Old 06-01-09, 10:14
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I think the NMM Library at Beaulieu may still have driver's handbooks..they sent me years ago a copy of a 1940 COE cab layout drawing from a book that must have been one supplied to GM Ltd or Vauxhalls when new as part of the dollar purchase for books and parts for the ex-French diverted contracts.

Or post a note on this forum as the cabs should be the same as the civvy version:

http://oldgmctrucks.infopop.cc/eve
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Old 07-01-09, 11:04
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Is this "G628 GMC, 2 1/2 ton, 6X4 Truck, Searchlight, AFKX-354 (5 seat cab)"?

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Army truck carrying power plant for AA searchlight.
Location: US
Date taken: 1942
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Old 07-01-09, 11:32
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It should be! Or a clone! I have a photo taken in December 1941 of a semi-derelict one at GM Limited in Bamber Bridge, awaiting rebuild, minus front end! They were of course obsolete and I gather rebuilt as G/S lorries or sold off to essential civilian users.
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Old 08-01-09, 23:28
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Hanno,
Yes that's the type of truck, I'm looking for photo's!
Have you any of the right hand side?
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Old 09-01-09, 03:08
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The only view of the RHS I have is a scan from Barts Book.
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