C60X Machinery bodies..Manuals of equipment? surviving "complete" examples?

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's some info from Military Vehicle Profiles.

[Noel Burgess]

Those are great David, however I think the first picture should be described as a Role A not L.
Noel

[Alex van de Wetering]

Thanks for the responces, guys.

@ Noel. Very interesting. Indeed, It would be great to see some more "proof" of the descriptions of Mr. Lacey, but this is already a good start. Do the drawings and description also cover the other Machinery and Stores types?

@ Phil
Indeed, some CMP Machinery bodies have been covered on the forum before, but If I remember correctly, most were of the "Open" body type...the GS ones and not the ones using the Lindsey bodies......But, I will double check to be sure. The one I am after is the big boxy body as fitted to the C60X 6x6 as seen in Dave's post. The truck at Borden is very sweet and surely on my wish list when it comes to scale models; your pictures are very helpfull for that project and I also have some pics of the same truck from Keith's website and from a fellow modeller.

@ Dave
That's indeed the Gregg Publication I was referring to. It gives a nice list of the different models produced, but for my project I am looking for more detailed info. The top view and picture of the "L" type is basically what I am looking for for the C and D body types as well. Just as Neil wrote....it seems Dr. Gregg made a small mistake in the description of the body type, though.

I presume every different body had a separate manual, just like with the Diamond manual I have here. But....I guess those manuals are not very common to say the least.

Alex

[Nick Bullock]

Hi Alex
If the the model is anything like that Morris Commerical then it will be stunning!
Many years ago I looked over a manual collection at the long closed Museum of Army Transport. They held a huge collection of wartime manuals amongst them all a pile of Canadian 'SB' series body manuals. I have searched for years to find some of these and only found a couple of them. Sadly none of the ones I have are for machinery bodies. There may well have been something in one of those manuals should you be able to find a copy. I don't believe that I have even seen a complete lisiting of these manuals though an incomplete list exists in Peter Fords INFOEX Book.
kind regards
nick

[Noel Burgess]

Alex the drawings (2) list all machinery roles and the differances in door arrangement; if you PM your e-mail address I can send you details.
Also I have on my computer 4 images of the interior of a role A C60X - these were saved from a thread on MLU, they were photographs from a book in (i think) a canadian museum taken on 29/06/2007 but I can't find the thread and forgot to note the poster or thread number.

Noel

[cletrac (RIP)]

Here's one in the Western desert. The other two are just because I guess.

[Alex van de Wetering]

@ Nick
The PU was really fun to do, but it's a bit of a shame that I haven't finished any models since than! I really want to get some Canadian projects done now....with the C60X, LAAT, HUP/HUW/HUA and C8 high on the wish list!
Will send you a PM.

@ Noel
Some interior pics of a C60X on our own forum? hmmm...the search function is a real challenge sometimes....with most of the CMP types under the minimum word length it often requires some clever thinking or a good memory who posted it! Will send you my email-address through PM.

@ Dave
Excellent pictures, but sadly not the body I am looking for. I have attached a picture from forum member Serge, which shows the big box I am looking for.

Alex




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