Cmp c15a gs

[Bob Carriere]

Gord..... you are right the Oshawa group as a cab 12 with the same box as my cab 11....... but is it the same for the cab 13.... all you really need is the radius of the curves and overall dimensions...

Now...Joel.... the aircraft museum in Hamilton had a cab 13 15cwt.... not sure if they sold it.... but it had bows..... not sure if original.

I already have a new tarp made by Stew Loy and Co'y and will probably adjust my bows to fit the height of the tarp for a better fit...... or amybe allow for the bows to be adjusted downwards if the tarp shrink over time....

I can check with the CWM in Ottawa but not sure if what they have is original....

Now horn wise Phil Waterman as a discreetly place air horn near the top section of his C60 tall radio box.... which commands a lot of attention when used on the highway.......

Bob

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Bob

Yup added the air horns after one to many little cars tried to become wheel chocks. The regular horn is for the polite Toot the air horns for getting their attention.

Now back to the bows, I've been thru my photo collection to see if I could find what a "original" set of bows would look like. I'm not sure there is a single correct design. I've found period photos with the top of the bow flat across form the to side bends, others with a little peak in the middle others with a significant peak in the middle. Then look at the non cargo versions with the bows and canvas added to disguise the special purpose truck as a plain cargo.

There also seems to be a lot of difference in do the bows have fore aft bars or boards. Which gets into the whole question of will the truck be parked outside with the tarp on in the rain or snow? Because if the answer is yes the fore aft connections tend cause the canvas to catch and hold the snow and rain.

Cheers Phil

[r.morrison]

Phil/Bob: I scanned and emailed a couple of pages from Bill Gregg's books, down to Joel. Given the photos and measurements from the book, Joel should be able to manufacture the bows for his 15CWT. If he's got a talented person in his shop, he shouldn't have a problem. I know he's also trying to get in touch with some local 15CWT owners. Just has a problem getting the owners to return their emails! Cheers.....Robert

[cletrac (RIP)]

I have an original bow off a 2A1 but they're a bit different to the other 15 cwt bows. They are made in two pieces and welded together at the centre.

[Joel Culliford]

Still should work for measurements and/or a template

[Joel Culliford]

So....cletrac, think you could make a template for me?

So the students are rewiring the dash panel and are using the Chey wiring diagram. On the diagram it it shows a headlight beam indicator. Any body have an idea what this is or where it is on a 1942 chev dash. Pictures would be really helpful.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Joe - encountered this many years ago and came up with the following.

Dim Lights Bright Lights

When I first started restoring Chevrolet instrument panels, as usual, I obtained the best NOS speedometer and instrument faces to replicate. My first speedometer face just happened to be a “Bright Light” face and several old panels I obtained were all the same. Lately though the ones I have been obtaining have a “Dim Light” face. Of course I didn’t discover this immediately until I was comparing instrument serial numbers and found that I had two different numbers for the speedometer face. Shock, horror, where did this “Dim Light” come from and what was its history.

I consulted one of my guru contacts who told me the following. Prior to about 1938 there was basically no beam indication in a speedometer. In about that year Pontiac and Chevrolet built in a low beam indicator and that was described on the speedometer face. In the late 1940s, apparently after many complaints from army drivers, the wiring was changed to allow a high beam indication and that was reflected on the new speedometer face. I do not doubt the veracity of this story but would be interested for any corroboration. As an aside apparently the British were high beam indicators right from the start.

BTW your replacement switch and plate are en-route.

Bob