Fordson WOT8

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The dash seems to be intact, with its original wiring.

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more pictures

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Original rear body door, original pair of exhausts, spare wheel holder - unfortunatelly the lifting mechanism is missing, will need to find some refference pictures. I was told the WOT8 had a hydraulical system of lifting the spare wheel.
There is a good condition rad, which will need flushing. And view if the foof internals just like the one found in Australia.

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engine with a funny looking gearbox with air-compressor. Detail for the steering wheel.

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Few more pictures of the cab, petrol tank with holders, rear fenders and engine parts. As you can see there is a long way to go, but surely worth the effort to save this piece of British history.

Still wonder if anybody could identify where L4574948 could serve. Is there any archive to search in?
Anybody knows who owns the ex-Andrew Morgan WOT8 in the UK?

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Great stuff!

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Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Czechoslovak Independent Brigade help cleaning rubble after the air-bombing of Coventry, UK, spring 1942.

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Hi, I am making the Resicast GS conversion of the ICM WOT 6 kit in 1/35th scale & I am stuck on the petrol tank size. I thought the tank on the WOT 8 & 6 were the same size but the tank in the Resicast kit is so much larger than the one in the ICM WOT 6 kit. Would you know if the two vehicles had the same size tank & would it be possible to let me have the size of yours please?
Regards Howard Robins

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Hello Howard,

although I haven´t had an opportunity to see any WOT6, the large petrol tanks should be the same. I had two tanks with my WOT8 and a friend has another one on his. All three match. The WOT6 followed up with production after the WOT8 was ceased so they used the same parts on the early types. Even the holders looks the same. Below find the basic dimensions.
To give you a scale for your modell, the wheel rim measures 59cm in diameter.

For those who buy the ICM WOT8 kit and decide to dedicate it to the Czechoslovak Independent brigade in Great Britain, the "lion" insignia they sell it with is wrong. The ICM got probably inspired by some of my period pictures but missed the detail and used a butcher gild lion instead! The brigade badge was used up to June 1943 until it got replaced by the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group badge - white lion on the red cross with blue background. Both should look like these originals here.