Cfr 70-08889

[chris vickery]

Whenever you are back online with the EDR I am eager to see what mysteries we can unravel regarding this jeep!
Thanks as always, Chris

[45jim]

I drove crazy eights while in the Lorne Scots and it never had a pedestal mount, or any gun mount for that matter. We being an Infantry unit had no need for a mount as we didn't have a single .50, just the old GPMG. None of the jeeps in the unit, or any other unit in HMD had one at the time. Friends in the Queens York Rangers lamented the fact of just having the side mounted Pig. Looking backward through rose tinted glasses me thinks.

The only pedestal mounts I ever saw were on cut up M38A1's in Cyprus. They were sitting on the bottom of the Med in a pile. We had the Iltis on my Cyprus tour but plenty of two-timers remembered firing .50 from the M38A1's from the pedestal and said it almost shook those old jeeps to pieces and was as stiff as a noodle, not a good mount for such an accurate gun.

Chris, I think you should forget the call sign thing, its just wishful thinking. Its really accurate to say that depending on who showed up and how many vehicles were available that weekend, would be the determining factor as to what callsign was given to a specific vehicle. And when talking command call signs, they were assigned to the person not the vehicle. If the vehicle broke down and he moved to another vehicle, he took his call sign with him.

[chris vickery]

Respectfully, Jon and others, but my post is starting to wander.
How did we get on to pedestal mounts? AFAIK, a pedestal is a mount in the back of a vehicle and no where did I bring this up in my query.
What I did indicate was the presence of the side mounted GPMG mount, typical of Militia jeeps.
I did also note today when looking at my jeep, that it has the wire guard on the back floor to protect the radio cable running from passenger side to driver side. Was this part of the dual setup or was it also used because radio mounting location had been changed from passenger to driver side?
I know the power supply comes in just behind the passenger seat and it is still there. Maybe radio types/ veh techs might have some answers, Rob, Jon???

[rob love]

The wire guard on the floor was not unusual. It could indicate mounting of a radio on the left fender vs the right, and may have nothing to do with dual IKEE setup.


As to wandering threads on MLU???? Never happens.

[Frank v R]

Hi Chris , I do not remember ever seeing a CDN 2 or 3 without the guard and I think the floor also has welded speed nuts for it from the factory,
regards Frank

[rob love]

That was my experience as well....pretty much every jeep had the guard.

[chris vickery]

Thanks guys, thats what I was looking for.
My first CDN3 is missing the guard, so I was not aware of the relevance towards one radio installation or another.
Was the adotion of the rear fender support brackets on both sides common practice as well? By that I mean to say, was it usual to install these extra supports on both sides whenever the CFTO was produced/was this done under a CFTO or was it factory ordered under the various contracts, beit Ford or Jeep?