Half-track GM trucks

[Keith Webb]

I've just interviewed Mike Cecil on that very subject for the upcoming Carrier DVD, although not in complete detail...

The CMP half track was one of several experiments to create a specialised vehicle for beach transport during landings in the island campaigns. Other vehicles used were Ford/MH and International Harvester.

It used adapted Carrier bogies and tracks with a Chev differential, but after trials was abandoned because of relatively slow road speed, noise and the unsuitability of steel tracks on hard road surfaces, and at any rate the US-built half tracks with their rubber tracks and more powerful engines were becoming more available in the area so the CMP and other indiginous half-tracks were abandoned.

Not sure of the date but it has steel doors rather than the canvas covered lightweight doors which would indicate 43 or early 44.