WW2 British 15 cwt body drawings

[Radek]

Hi to all,
have somebody new webpage or had downloaded the pictures from this site?
http://www.geocities.com/vk3cz/GSBody.html

On this site was nice chart for 15cwt GS body - Morris-Commercial.

I dind´t downloaded it.


Or have somebody chart for 30 cwt GS body?

[T Creighton]

Hi Radek,

You can find it at
http://web.archive.org/web/200803181...cz/GSBody.html

Cheers Terry

[Radek]

many thanks Terry

Can somebody confir me that the boards for 15 and 30 cwt are the same? No the lenght.

[cletrac (RIP)]

Radek, I made a 15 cwt body for my C15. There's lots of pictures on this thread.
The British built bodies used 3 1/2" wide boards for the sides but the Canadian built bodies used wider boards.

[Radek]

Cletrac I have forgot on yourbriliant work, great.

Now I have confroted any pictures in my PC. It looks that Austin Co. used another size of boards than anothers.

I hope that the thickness of the boards is the same.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Radek

Hi to all,
have somebody new webpage or had downloaded the pictures from this site?
http://www.geocities.com/vk3cz/GSBody.html

On this site was nice chart for 15cwt GS body - Morris-Commercial.

I dind´t downloaded it.


Or have somebody chart for 30 cwt GS body?

That was my old web site . Looks like somebody has saved bits of it . geocities closed it down on me .

I never did finish off the GS drawings, for lack of information. I pieced it together from the remains of a GS body I have.

MIKE

[Radek]

Hi Mike,
it was nice website.

I have only pictures and rare Austin K30 - 30c.w.t. with non original body.

It looks that anothers servived Austins are K2 - 2 tons, the GS body is longer.

[Radek]

I have draw any parts of 30 cwt body (it was made in Windows drawing, no Cad )

Is here somebody who will help to me with dimensions?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Many years ago Mike Kelly had drawn up the basics of the 15 cwt GS body as fitted to the Morris CS8, Guy Ant, Fordson WOT2 and Bedford MW GS trucks.
Mike used an original Morris Commercial built GS body dating from 1941 as a pattern. The original 7/8" boards appear to be a softwood e.g. pine or fir. The wood has a salmon pink hue and may be Douglas Fir or possibly a exotic pine from Europe. The 15 cwt GS bodies were built by various companies from 1934 on to 1945 and they do vary in detail. It should be noted these drawings were measured from a Morris Commercial body circa 1941 and they will vary in detail from bodies built by other companies.

Mike Kelly’s website was originally published on the now defunct geocities.com domain. A copy can be retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20080318...cz/GSBody.html

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Second batch of drawings:

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Two more photos:

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