YOUR DODGE D-15 pictures - wanted!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Erwin

My D-15 is on the road since 2010. It´s now rebuilt from (postwar Austrian) LH steering to (original) RH steering.

Erwin,

I forgot to congratulate you on your D15. It turned out really smart!

Note: for those who have missed it, see http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=12401 for a picture of what Erwin started off with...

Originally Posted by Erwin

I would like to encourage you to post PICTURES of Dodge D-15s.
1. Wartime or 2. restored and running.

Here are some links to related threads:

1. Wartime
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1249
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=29074
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?p=87506


2. restored and running (or under restoration)
- D15 under restoration in Belgium (from Austria): http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...d.php?p=162526
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7030
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=16762
- http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?p=68665

HTH,
Hanno

[Pete Ashby]

Couple more photos showing left and right sides of an early first contract D15 tanker in light stone.
Sorry no reference for these as I can't remember now were on the web I took them from, may be IWM but I suspect these may be factory photos by Dodge Bros.

Pete

[Erwin]

Alex, Simon, Pete:

Wonderful pictures! In particular the Jewish Brigade truck strikes me. Never seen it before! Great! But all of your posts are extremely fascinating!!

Hanno:

Thank you for your congratulations) and your reference link where it all started from...

All on the Softskin Forum:

P L E A S E keep paying tribute to an (attention-wise) underrated though absolutely beautiful 40ies truck with a unique British-Canadian-US family tree!
And post YOUR D-15 pictures here!

>>Any more restored ones?

Thank YOU
Erwin

[Pete Ashby]

Here's a couple of D15 vans in Polish service these photos would be either taken in Italy or possibly Austria credits are on the photos, notice the camouflage scheme Erwin

Pete

[Bob Carriere]

Peter

How did the ladies keep that "berret" firmly on the back of their heads????


Second question..... seeing you are from the UK and have seen your postings on other site........ I remember reading/seeing somewhere that there was a LRDG "repro" that was made in the UK using the Canadian Dodge axles that accepted the standard CMP rims........ any knowledge of who they were????

curious about their building process.......

Bob C

[Alex van de Wetering]

Couple more...

Water tanker in Italy, source: IWM CNA 2381 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205212494
Second and third picture, Alkmaar 1945, source: https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/
Picture 4. Postwar Dutch service. source: https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/
Sadly I can't remember where I found the 5th picture of the decapitated water tanker

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

Any more restored ones?

I think the one in the first picture might be Simons truck in a previous life (?).....here it is at Wings and Wheels in Belgium in 2015. It has to be the D15 that was restored by the late Johan van Rijn.
second pic shows a D15 in Normandy in 2009.....I though it was owned by an Italian member.....but looking at the licence plate it might be British (?).
Last picture shows a Dutch D15 in 2016

Alex

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Couple more...
...
Sadly I can't remember where I found the 5th picture of the decapitated water tanker

Alex

Great pics Alex!
Looking atYOUR decapitated bowser with the intentionally installed single windshield like in LRDG vehicles and atHANNOS decapitated GS body there apparently were even more then one customized desert versions!!! I will try and find a 1:35 model illustration of such a desertized D15 I once dug out somewhere. 10+ Years I have been thinking that this was pure fiction. Very exciting!!!

Btw: thank you!! Hanno for your great pics. (And your lively participating in this thread-your infos were already instrumental together with Mike Starmer for my paintwork yrs ago;-)))

Cheers and tot ziens
Erwin

[Pete Ashby]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Peter

How did the ladies keep that "berret" firmly on the back of their heads????

I suspect hat pins Bob my mother used to have some wicked ones.

Second question..... seeing you are from the UK and have seen your postings on other site........ I remember reading/seeing somewhere that there was a LRDG "repro" that was made in the UK using the Canadian Dodge axles that accepted the standard CMP rims........ any knowledge of who they were????

curious about their building process.......

If you are thinking about the one that was based on the 30cwt MCP, then that was done probably over 30 years ago now. The chap who did it was Preston Isaacs from North Devon ex MVT Chairman and owner of Cobbaton Military Vehicle Museum.

Pete

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Second question..... seeing you are from the UK and have seen your postings on other site........ I remember reading/seeing somewhere that there was a LRDG "repro" that was made in the UK using the Canadian Dodge axles that accepted the standard CMP rims........ any knowledge of who they were????

curious about their building process.......

I have seen short footage on youtube or similar of a D15 without roof and doors and kitted out like it was to cross the desert.

The D15 uses the standard WD 6.00x16" split rim, so there would be no "building process" to fit these to the Dodge axles?

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I have seen short footage on youtube or similar of a D15 without roof and doors and kitted out like it was to cross the desert.

I think this is the one I saw in a short clip:

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/richar...7627751210502/

[Simon Balding]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I have seen short footage on youtube or similar of a D15 without roof and doors and kitted out like it was to cross the desert.

The D15 uses the standard WD 6.00x16" split rim, so there would be no "building process" to fit these to the Dodge axles?

Hanno, I have a fellow D15 owner friend, who told me to watch the 1950's movie "Sea of Sand".
Its about a LRDG mission during WW2.
There are a number of possible D15s in the movie playing a prominent role as LRDG trucks. We have had a squabble about whether the D15s in the movie have been chopped up to look like the famous LRDG Chevies or if the D15 really was actually used for raiding by the LRDG.
I am firmly of the opinion that the the dodges have been "chevvified" for the film as the historical accuracy in the rest of the movie is a little off point.
E.G. Germans chasing the LRDG column in US international halftracks equipped with Bren guns.

As always I am happy to be proven wrong, and would love to see some photos of a "real" LRDG D15 even if the silly beggars had taken a hacksaw to those beautiful curves!

Anyway, its enjoyable movie if you can see past some of the questionable hardware.

A few screenshots for you to debate....