20 June 2004--a sad day

[Keith Webb]

Cliff has sent me a CD of his pictures.
I've made a couple of pages on the Old CMP Site:

Page 1

and

Page 2

This is seriously sad stuff for the CMP community.

[cliff]

The small white square in the detail photos on Keiths site is for scaling purposes.

THE SQUARE IS 50mm X 50mm (or 5cm X 5cm)

this is so I can work out the size of items from this fixed point at a later date.

Thanks for posting the pics Keith

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by cliff
The small white square in the detail photos on Keiths site is for scaling purposes.

THE SQUARE IS 50mm X 50mm (or 5cm X 5cm)

this is so I can work out the size of items from this fixed point at a later date.

Thanks for posting the pics Keith

No worries, Cliff.

If you're using these trucks (or any which are around now) some details aren't original.
For instance, the radiator in the cab 12 below is from a later truck...



...whilst the cab 12 in the pic on the right...



...has the correct rad.

[cliff]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
If you're using these trucks (or any which are around now) some details aren't original.
For instance, the radiator in the cab 12 below is from a later truck...

...whilst the cab 12 in the pic on the right...

...has the correct rad.

Darn! but I am sure some kind cab12 Ford owners can give me a pic and measurements of a correct radiator for my records.

I wondered if it was correct as I always thought they had the angled front on them.

[Wayne Henderson]

If anyone is up there with a car boot can you please save

1. The side wire window screens off the Ambulance body for the W.A. one we are restoring at the Army Museum.

2. the 2 crew doors off the no. 6 bofor bodies.

Will pay in money, beer, parts, first borns or kind.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi All

I won't steal Tony's thunder apart from saying that was a true scavenger. Spent all day scavenging, suffered heat stroke and dehydration and departed minus any instruments & gauges. However after a cold shower, food and booze and a lecture from me that night, turned around the following morning and went back to Kingeroy and addressed the instruments and found what he wanted.

Over to you Tony for a full debrief.

Bob

[Tony Smith]

Having just got back and seeing Cliff's pics on Keith's site, I'm pleased to say that some items are gone or waiting to be picked up by new owners. However, there will still be much for the scrapman to play with. There are still about 50 trucks there and while some are nothing more than rusty metal, some are worth saving. So, lets see what's left....

CMPs lined up over the hill and far away ($50 per tonne)

[Tony Smith]

..same price, $50 per tonne

[Tony Smith]

Also just $50 per tonne!

[Tony Smith]

You know the price without me even telling you!

[Tony Smith]

Some vehicles were quite worth saving for several reasons.

Here's a couple of the beauties (OK, you have to be a bit of a beholder )

Cab 11 Chev, no dataplates, could not read eng no.

[Tony Smith]

This Ford cab 12 was quite straight and rust free and would be a good project:

[Tony Smith]

This Dodge T-110L-5 showed markings which may or may not have been original, but was probably the best Dodge there.

[Tony Smith]

This well weathered Ford had a deposit paid on it by someone last year, but the sellers have not have heard back from the prospective buyer and it has to GO NOW. It has been relisted for sale, but won't wait around too long before the farm is sold.

Nice original body, rust free, just been out in the weather too long:

[cliff]

The Dodge is now missing it's bonnet as it was complete when I was there Wednesday. This along with the good 12 cab were the two I was tempted to buy.

[Tony Smith]

These trucks had been paid for and were waiting to be picked up. 2 Fords, 2 Chevs and 2 Dodges:

[Tony Smith]

This Ford seemed to be a commercial truck with a CMP rear axle and an F15 front axle and 20" CMP wheels. Is this an FC60L or a homemade job?

[Tony Smith]

This Ford was one I mistook last year for a Marmon-Herrington. It is of course a 4x2 with M-H wheels. It will continue to ride the sands of time with it's new owner:

[Tony Smith]

This Ford Ambulance has also been bought and will survive a little longer, but I think it needs to be rushed to Emergency if it's prognosis is to be any good :

[Tony Smith]

All of the sheeting on the body was gone and the timber framing was rapidly going, too. At least we all now know what an Ambulance looks like under the skin!

[cliff]

Tony I am glad that the ambulance has been purched as it would have been a real shame for it to be scrapped even in it's present state

[Tony Smith]

Most of the trucks had some sort of civilianised tray on the back, but there was a small number of original bodies. This Chev C60L had a badly rotted but complete timber body from any number of variations of machinery or workshop bodies. Unfortunately, just the deck and sides were there, there was no sign of the hoop bows or wire mesh sides for the canopy.

[Tony Smith]

Here is a (poor) photo of the type of machinery body above, in this case a battery charging unit:

[Tony Smith]

There were also about a dozen Jeeps going, too. At $50 a tonne, you could buy a whole lot of Jeep. But who'd want one anyway?

[Tony Smith]

If you couldn't scratch up the $50 for a jeep, just get a body! At 4 bodies to the tonne, that's $12.50 for a Jeep body. Even Tamiya can't match that!

[Tony Smith]

If the preceeding graphic images have not got you down in a blathering mess, then your'e a cold hearted soul indeed. However, just to crack your last reserves of resolve, an image so ghastly, so horrific, it had to wait to last. We've seen Ford CMP's, Chev CMP's, Ford trucks, Chev trucks, Dodge trucks, Jeeps, and Internationals, all heading for destruction (Strangely no motorbikes or armour in this collection!). But now, a crime that will surely reverberate from Victoria to England and back, destruction of MORRIS 4WD PU parts, too! Not to mention the original WW2 tyre with it

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Thanks for the pics, Tony!

Originally posted by Tony Smith
This Ford seemed to be a commercial truck with a CMP rear axle and an F15 front axle and 20" CMP wheels. Is this an FC60L or a homemade job?

Sounds like an FC60L to me - good to hear it was saved before the crusher comes in!

H.

P.S.: here's a pic of one 60 years ago or so:

Source: http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/
Three soldiers working on military truck engine over trench [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1941]
photograph : gelatin silver ; 12 x 10 cm.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.100/3886
Image Number: an012691

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Tony Smith
There were also about a dozen Jeeps going, too. At $50 a tonne, you could buy a whole lot of Jeep. But who'd want one anyway?

At those prices, either fix 'm up and sell them to get big $$'s for your CMP restoration fund, or take a $12.50 body to an MV show and crush it with your CMP in front of all the jeep lovers

But now, a crime that will surely reverberate from Victoria to England and back, destruction of MORRIS 4WD PU parts, too!

MORRIS 4WD PU?!? As in Morris-Commercial PU8/4?!? Noooo.......

H.

[Tony Smith]

or take a $12.50 body to an MV show and crush it with your CMP in front of all the jeep lovers

Even better, take it next year's Corowa event, "Year of the Carrier". Crowds go nuts over Armour crushing cars, they seem to think that's all Tanks or Carriers are good for!

[Ian Fawbert]

But who'd want one anyway?

+

crush it with your CMP in front of all the jeep lovers

Cmon guys! dont make me cry anymore than i already am! I hope your joking!- cmon Tony, lets not forget theres more than once jeep owner on this fourm!

I guess all the GMC, Study's and dodge wc's are gone- since there was nothing mentioned or in your pics?

If only we didnt live in such a big country! There are several vehicles there i would quite happily take home- and i dont just mean the jeeps! Im just amazed at the shot of the row/s of CMP's heading over the hill... ooh well back to crying!


Ian.