Wire 3 Chorehorse mount

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by charlie fitton

I can't see the genny being run in that position. Vibration, noise, poison fumes going under the box, and the muffler/exhaust would be adjacent to the fuel tank.

All true, but the Wire 5 and HUW had the chorehorse(s) mounted in a cabinet in the bodywork that could be opened to the interior so I doubt that even with the door closed it would have been fully sealed. There were stencils warning that the doors had to be closed to run the generators so they clearly weren't always removed to operate and when operating they would still have been close to doors and windows for exhaust recycling. Workplace safety wasn't as high a priority 70 years ago, particularly in a war zone where a bullet would have been a much bigger worry than exhaust gas (although both can kill).