Reference: Top Bows - 15-cwt truck

[Svenn Ryen]

Thanks guys for the info.

But still looking for templates for the bows. Anyone?

Svenn

[George McKenzie]

I will be making a set for my truck and Reg Hodgson has a bow that I am going to use for a copy ,later this winter .I can get you the measurements then

[Svenn Ryen]

Hi guys. I got the oportunity to make templates from the truck on the Norwegian Army Museums C15 (which actually is for sale, see link: http://retrade.no/aitem?aitem_id=120136).

Take a look at the pictures below.

The bow is an original from the norwegian army museum and truck on the link. The flat iron hook is 19 millimeters or 3/4" wide.

But as you can se on the other picture the distance between the edges for the hook on my cargo bed is 24 millimeters. I presume the top bow will move a lot back and forth if I use 3/4" flat iron on my bows.

I believe the cargo bed on the museums C15 is early type 2C1 and mine is late type 2J1.

Was there a change of specifications on these bows at some point?? Or should it just be 3/4" on both types ?? 24 millimeters is also a very strange inch meassure15/16"?? But perhaps it should be 7/8" wide? I believe my tubing should be 1" but on the muesums truck it was 7/8".

Does anyone have a 2J1 cargo bed bows and can meassure the hooks and bows?

I did not meassure the distance on the cargo bed in the museum.

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Svenn

[Svenn Ryen]

My top bows are done. Heres pictures of the result!

Svenn

[maple_leaf_eh]

Nice metal work, now I see some heavy timber framing in the background of your workshop. What does the outside of the garage look like? Did you buy the building already constructed, or build it yourself? (You will make all the Australians jealous at the abundance of good sized trees and timbers.)

[Svenn Ryen]

Hi Terry!

A bit off topic, the pictures are from my barn. The only buliding large enough to house my CMP. I am planning to bulid a larger store house but still waiting for the authorities to let me.

I did not build this building. Its the one with a big white door on the picture, just behind the living house. The barn is from the 1930's. But the is plenty of large sized timber in the area, so much of the timber used in fixing up the place is from my own ground.

I have my workshop in the left of the picture

The place has been in the family for generations, actuallly my roots go 600 years back in the area. I mowed here after service in the army, about 15 years ago and started to fix the place up. When that was done I needed something to do, so I picked up my hobby again, MVs and a CMP turned up

Svenn

[maple_leaf_eh]

You are a lucky man to be able to move back to the family property, and especially one that has such a long tradition of occupancy.