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24-12-18, 02:28
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Well done, Ed! Note the mast fittings on the drivers step and upper rear corner of the door.
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24-12-18, 04:15
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The truck that Brian had is a C15a Wire3. Same as my truck I’m restoring. Brain and I have talked at length about his old truck. Sadly it had nothing left other then the mast mounts to distinguish it from a regular C15a
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Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer
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24-12-18, 07:32
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Gary
Just been looking at my copy of 'Blueprint for Victory'
A guy called Gary Moonie from B.C. is mentioned, he had a DND prototype 15cwt in his collection. Is that truck still around ? I think Gary was one of the pioneers saving these trucks back in the 1970's.
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24-12-18, 13:57
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It is my understanding that the Ford Pilot shown in Blueprint for victory is now on Vancouver Island and completed or nearly completed. There are 3 other Ford pilots that I know of: apparently the CWM has one, there is one in here in the RCA museum Shilo, and a fourth one surfaced from the collection of the Reynolds museum in Wetaskiwan AB, and has since moved to a private collection closer to Calgary. Not bad: 4 of the 51 Ford pilots have survived.
I know of one Chev pilot located in Saskatchewan, and I think I heard of another in Ontario a few years back. I wonder how many of the 50 chevs survived.
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24-12-18, 17:57
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CMP seminar
Here are a couple of pictures of the 15cwt from its movie days. This was from "Firing Squad" the truck was supposed to get stuck fording a river and get pulled out by a jeep. Of course it wouldn't get stuck so we had to sink a large steel plate under the nearside rear wheel so it could spin and spray water, meanwhile the other wheel was chained up with a long bar across it so it wouldn't turn. It was in the fall (November?) and the water was VERY cold- all the guys in the river were wearing wet suits under their uniforms. Second photo at the bombed out buildings tgghat were actually made of plywood and vacuum formed plastic brick/stone work. A couple of days after this was taken it all froze up- there are probably 3or 4 hundred tentpegs in the ground that we could not get out after the movie ended and the ground was frozen solid!
B.P. 15cwtBCA.JPG
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03-06-22, 20:18
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One man’s army
Original Toronto Star caption: “One man's army: Bill Gregg of Milton who collects and restores Canadian-made military vehicles, now has more than 40 on his farm. The pride of his collection is the caravan used as field headquarters by Lt.-Gen. H. D. G. Crerar. (1981)”
F9AB95BB-0F03-463B-8287-E844B55EB896.jpg Source: https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/people...g-bill/objects
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