FAT Fast brothers Prairie Command restoration

[Keith Webb]

Interesting to see how they differ from the doors on the locally produced FATs in Australia. The crew doors were narrow and made from cut down front doors. The rear door on the No8 FAT was wider than the crew doors but still made from a front door. You can see the neat weld lines on the inside, which has the standard inner skin pattern.
The No9 FAT had the same crew doors as the No8 but two rear doors instead of one, which were new fabrications not using the front doors, and were held in place by a sliding bolt.
It bemuses me that both manufacturers made the same bodies with detail differences given the relatively small numbers produced, when a large production body like the 2A used on 15CWT CMPs here was only made by Holden.
The No6 Bofors tractor had crew doors about the same size as the others but these were made from scratch with a raised cross pattern on the inner skin. These bodies were only made by Holden.