CMP lights

[Bob Carriere]

Hi David
Hi Harle

Very early cab 11 DID NOT have factory installed rubber marker light onthe front fenders and no black out lights for the rear axle........

They relied on the parking light inside the headlight bucket to be a marker light. My cab 11 never had marker lights on the front fenders. THe headligth buckets were Ford I beilive and had two bulbs.....on for the headlight mounted center and a smaller parking light installed half way on the side of the reflector..... documented in the early parts manual..... the samelight buckets with different mounting tabs were used on the Ford built UC.

My odd ball cab 11 never went overseas and was never retro fitted with all the blackout thingnies......

Cheers

Bob C

[Harlé Sylvain]

Hello
I found this two pictures on the net from cab 12 CGT one with no lights at all , and the second with some light on the top position of the wing as david say certainly change or add by the british army.

Thanks again
Sylvain

[Lauren Child]

I've seen pictures of jeeps in service with the Lucas/Butler sidelights, which would also be a mod to the standard as-delivered jeep. I'd imagine they were common in the workshops, and were easily on hand for a refurb or field modification.

The way vehicle stores were ordered, you may find that they are the general purpose version in the VAOS where the Canadian types would be vehicle specific, and thus harder to find without the right part number/parts list. Plus the scrap vehicle park would probably have had a bunch for recovery and reuse by enterprising squaddies. They were common to a lot of vehicles.

[s]That said, the hole in the wing in question doesn't look anywhere near big enough, so the normal canadian type look to be the right fitting unless you're modifying it.[/s]

Edit:Ah, just spotted the bit about re-welding, so it my have been bigger than it looks.