Elliott's Yard, Ontario in 1993

[David Dunlop]

The last photo in Post 1, with the car tucked in beside the CMP, reminds me of a couple of similar sites here in Manitoba years ago. When I visited them, I was always fixated on the CMP’s and never gave the cars a second glance. I knew many of these cars were 40’s vintage. End of story. I often wonder now, how many of them might actually have been ex military.


David

[Tony Smith]

Imagine that! Having a choice between 11 or 12 Cab Fords and Chevs!

[Alex van de Wetering]

David,

Thanks for sharing these pictures. You sent me two of them a few years ago.....one of them showing my C8... it's the one with the tree growing through it and the 20inch wheel leaning on the fender.

The lettering on the door was still much clearer at that time...."Floyd Break, Pefferlaw RR2"
Even though it's not wartime history, I still enjoy to find these scraps of my truck's history.


Alex

[david moore]

Hi Alex
Would you add a photo of the C8 now? Just to encourage us all!

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

1977 or 78. Even back then I was fixated on Otters and Fox.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Aerial photo of the yard in 1979. I can make out the shadows of what are Paul Visser and my Foxes. You can see the Harvard above the white roofed building. Into the tree line it was very swampy and there were cars in there dating to the very early 1900's.

[peter simundson]

.....was a Yale.

Peter Simundson

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

1977 or 78. Even back then I was fixated on Otters and Fox.

The Fox is the one which was sold to Dirk Leegwater and then to Paul Visser, right?

What does "THIN ROOF HULL" and the triangle on the hull front denote? Is it a hull made from mild steel?

And where did the Otter end up?

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

The Fox is the one which was sold to Dirk Leegwater and then to Paul Visser, right?

What does "THIN ROOF HULL" and the triangle on the hull front denote? Is it a hull made from mild steel?

And where did the Otter end up?

The Fox in the photo is the one the Elliott's kept for their museum and went to the US. It has two front axles and, because they left the interior 'as-is', it was a wealth of information for my restoration. Paul's Fox was at the lower left, mine in the middle and the museum one on the right. One Otter was in the museum, the other went to a father/son team north of Montreal where it got a coat of post war gloss green paint and disappeared. I tried to look up the owners a few years ago without luck (there is an MLU post on this with pics).

The Fox in the yard were odd, and I think factory seconds. They were marked with welded on triangles and this one with THIN ROOF HULL (now ground off). All had early features (square gauges, no fire suppression, early turret crank) yet were at the end of the production run according to their manufacture dates.

Here are the locations of the Otters and Fox back then and the packing slip that came with them. My Fox is the top one, the Otter and Fox marked 'ours' went to the USA, Paul's is the third line and the other Otter is MIA.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by david moore

Hi Alex
Would you add a photo of the C8 now? Just to encourage us all!

David,

Well....in all honesty....at the time in Elliots yard it looked more like a truck than it does now....as it's still a work in progress!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Well....in all honesty....at the time in Elliots yard it looked more like a truck than it does now....as it's still a work in progress!

It is a testament to all the hard work that has gone into this truck. Well done Alex

One should know that every component and part had to be restored as the truck had such a hard life - even the chassis was extensively modified.

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