Ford Wreck in the Desert (1)

[Bill Murray]

Evening Keith:

As always, you make a valid point.
To the untrained eye (often mine) it is easy to mistake a modified conventional vehicle for a MH conversion. My take is that the MH system, usually using the same wheel/tyre combination as the modified conventional trucks, does not raise the "chassis above the tyres" enough to tell the difference.

If you look at the pics on my photo hosting site, you can see that on the commercial as opposed to military applications, the use of slightly smaller wheel/tyre equipment makes them pretty obviously converted vehicles.

I also am getting the feeling that there is some sort of "romantic halo" or some such description that leads a lot of us to consider any Canadian, British or Australian Ford with large wheel/tyre equipment to be per se a Marmon-Herrington conversion.

Frankly, it is not always that obvious that one is looking at an ordinary modified conventional vehicle or a MH conversion.
Perhaps someone smarter then me has some visual clues that we could use to determine which is which.

Cheers
Bill