Mack LMSW-57??

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I can't find the thread on the old forums...are these Macks? If so are they LMSW-57 Models please as they have soft cabs?

[Steve Guthrie]

Hello David

Yes, acccording to Vanderveen, the three on the left are all -57s, 160 were delivered under SM 2109.

The truck on the right is a Diamond T 969 4-ton Wrecker (or Tractor, Breakdown, Medium).

Steve

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

A superb shot of CMPs, International half-tracks, Allis-Chalmers tractors, Diamond Ts, Jeeps, and the Macks/Diamond Ts is featured with two articles that I wrote in May 2003 issue of HERITAGE COMMERCIALS magazine. Please buy it...it's worth it for the bravado for publishing a military section in an otherwise civvy orientated magazine.

If you guys want more of that sort let me know as we are going for a series of small books. The first on the development of CMPs has been written by me and I hope will get published.

[Keith Webb]

Speaking of this excellent mag - we get it here some months after publication - the January 2003 issue has an article on "The Canadian Quad" written by Alan Earnshaw which is fascinating and covers the CGT I notice some familiar pictures such as the Liverpool sot of the F60B trucks.
What also fascinated me was the way they called CMP gun tractors CVGs - what gives here?

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I think it's a printer's typo for 'CGT'. I have asked about the cost of airmail copies...why wait 6 weeks for surface mail?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Speaking of this excellent mag - we get it here some months after publication - the January 2003 issue has an article on "The Canadian Quad" written by Alan Earnshaw which is fascinating and covers the CGT I notice some familiar pictures such as the Liverpool sot of the F60B trucks.

From a thread on the Old Forum I understand an article on post-war CMP refurbishment appeared in the December 2002 issue of Heritage Commercials. I have looked at the magazine's web site at http://www.heritagecommercials.com, but could not find a reference to such an article under the listing of the December issue's contents. Who knows if this article appeared and if so, in which issue?

The site does reveal CMP content in other issues of Heritage Commercials:
- Jan 2003: "28 The Canadian Quad - In ‘Military Matters’, Alan Earnshaw reveals more fascinating facts about the Canadian Military pattern gun tractors."
- Feb 2003: "72 From Otter to APC - Concluding his short series about Canadian Military Pattern vehicles, Alan Earnshaw unearths some unique pictures of the prototype C15TA armoured trucks that were sent to Britain for erection."

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

See new thread!!

[Jeroen Sleijpen]

David,
Can you tell me where you found this picture of those LMSW 57's?

Thanks,

Jeroen

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

There is the full version in our new book out later this year.

Did the Canadians ise the Mack LMSW-57 please?