Reference: Top Bows - 15-cwt truck

[Svenn Ryen]

Hi guys. I got the oportunity to make templates from the truck on the Norwegian Army Museums C15 (which actually is for sale, see link: http://retrade.no/aitem?aitem_id=120136).

Take a look at the pictures below.

The bow is an original from the norwegian army museum and truck on the link. The flat iron hook is 19 millimeters or 3/4" wide.

But as you can se on the other picture the distance between the edges for the hook on my cargo bed is 24 millimeters. I presume the top bow will move a lot back and forth if I use 3/4" flat iron on my bows.

I believe the cargo bed on the museums C15 is early type 2C1 and mine is late type 2J1.

Was there a change of specifications on these bows at some point?? Or should it just be 3/4" on both types ?? 24 millimeters is also a very strange inch meassure15/16"?? But perhaps it should be 7/8" wide? I believe my tubing should be 1" but on the muesums truck it was 7/8".

Does anyone have a 2J1 cargo bed bows and can meassure the hooks and bows?

I did not meassure the distance on the cargo bed in the museum.

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Svenn