My CMP restoration

[maple_leaf_eh]

I know a wartime RCE field engineer, who besides being wonderful company and is a Legion comrade, worked his way from DDay to VEDay making roads, bridges and water. Stanley landed ahead of the assault waves in 5th Fd Coy RCE. His company was scattered in small parties all across the Canadian front, presumably to concentrate losses in one unit only.

Your tanker would be the sort of small transport that battalions and companies would need to get reliable water forward.

[Jon Bradshaw]

Thanks for the positive support so far.

I don't have the power pump for the PTO for this truck.

I would like to get a faucet from someone to carry around and show the supply shops but a picture like this is almost as good. Can I get a scale put beside it?

I also need the top for the filter cans, if someone has a top with the fittings on it for me to have a copy made or search for that would be great. I only have the pics out of the books.

[Owen Evans]

Originally Posted by Jon Bradshaw

Thanks for the positive support so far.

I don't have the power pump for the PTO for this truck.

I would like to get a faucet from someone to carry around and show the supply shops but a picture like this is almost as good. Can I get a scale put beside it?

I also need the top for the filter cans, if someone has a top with the fittings on it for me to have a copy made or search for that would be great. I only have the pics out of the books.

Here's some pictures of the tops off the British filters; I suspect the Canadian ones won't be too much different.

I don't have a tap to measure off, but they are 3/4" fittings. So the outside diameter of the threaded part will be approx. 1 inch. You should be able to work out the overall size of the tap from that.

Owen.

[Guy Verstrepen]

nice project there.

I am also working on a cmp water truck in Belgium.
and indeed I do not have pumps and filters anymore, they are very hard to find.
so I made replicas.
you can also view my project under restoration waterbowser.
very nice that there is still a cmp waterbowser and that he will soon tour and be exhibited to the public.

nice pictures by the way
greetings Guy

[Jon Bradshaw]

That series of pics of the filter tops is interesting. It appears to be from three separate pumps two of which are mounted on trucks. The rubber hose from the top to the tank is that correct? I thought it would have been steel like the rest? Now that I look closer I think I see that more of the piping is rubber than I had originally thought. That makes it easier.
Has anyone seen something that looks similar to those filter tops and might be modified to work?

[Owen Evans]

Originally Posted by Jon Bradshaw

That series of pics of the filter tops is interesting. It appears to be from three separate pumps two of which are mounted on trucks. The rubber hose from the top to the tank is that correct? I thought it would have been steel like the rest? Now that I look closer I think I see that more of the piping is rubber than I had originally thought. That makes it easier.

Yes, there's quite a bit of rubber hose to consider. From the link to the parts list (in post #7 above):

Page 12-13 - part no. 9123. 3/4" hose (20" long)
Page 12-15 - part no. 9123. 3/4" hose (11", 27" and 45" long)
Page 12-17 - part no. 9123. 3/4" hose, no length given
Page 12-17 - part no. 9232. 1-1/2" hose, no length given
Page 12-17 - part no. 9162. 1-1/4" hose, no length given

Then there's two 25-foot lengths of 3/4" hose for the suction hoses that are stowed in the rear locker.

Owen.

[Jon Bradshaw]

I have been busy with other things and not accomplished much on the CMP.

I have removed and replaced the wheel cylinders and master cylinder and re-shod the front shoes. The back were almost as good as new so I left those shoes alone. I cleaned and blasted the front drums and backing plates. Painted them and reinstalled everything.
Bled the brakes yesterday and now have a basically new set of brakes all around. The truck is still just a rolling chassis but I have begun making arrangements to get the chassis and the rest of the body pieces into a sandblaster in March from there straight to a paint and then reassembled. Sorry no pictures because there isn't much to see.
I hope to have this ready for a July first show here and then on to another in August.

[Gordons]

Hi Jon, nice to see the old F15A getting a rebuild, I owned the F15 at one time, brought it out from Saskatchewan a few years ago, then sold it, Bill Greggs noted, it looked like it had served with United Nations at one time as it had been painted white. nice item where the original 10:50 x 16 tires