Thanks fellas, this is exactly as I understood the situation to be but when I tried to find some documentation that actually states the 'on road' capacity of the CCKW as being 5 ton I can find nothing.
There is no doubt about the CCKW being able to do it without stress as the DUKW proves. It's 2 ton heavier than the CCKW to start with and still has the same placarded payload and towed load rating and I have literature that proves the Australian Army rated them up to 4 ton or 40 men, the DUKW that is. Curiously, the same document that rates them as 40 Australian men rates them at 25 American men. Plenty of room for jokes there but if you think about it, if an Australian operated duck sank with more than 25 Americans on board when they rated them at 25 it would be an international incident. If one sank with forty Australians, ho hum, get another lot.
David
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12-06-10, 07:40
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