Anyone seen one of these?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Neat little trailer. Not seen one of those before. A quick search yielded the page you got your info from: https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.co...odycompany.htm

And these two threads on well-known forums:
https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.ph...77565&start=15
https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/32350-what-kind-of-trailer/

It "appears to be some sort of communications trailer"

[Lang]

I was thinking of building a repro for a camper but looking at internal photos far too heavy and complicated.


Crossing the Rhine

[David Herbert]

The one crossing the pontoon bridge is different in that it has twin rear doors that are almost the full width of the body whereas the one at the top of this thread has a single rear door and the tail lights in the body either side of the narrower door opening. Possibly a different make for the same basic role ?

David

[Lang]

David

Seeing they are so rare you would think there was little call to give out contracts to more than one supplier. Stranger things have happened!

[David Herbert]

Lang,

Or possibly we are looking at early and late versions, or different versions for very specific uses. The rarity might be partly because they were quite useful but not as tough as the average truck and they all got battered to death. I had never heard of them before this thread.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I think the trailer crossing the Rhine is one captured from the German army or even a civilian one.

As these are so rare, one would have many degrees of freedom building a replica.

You may want to consider building your own trailer like the Canadian 1st Division did in Italy. I’ll look op the thread on here later, but basically they turned the back halves of GS trucks in trailers or built their own on any chassis they could lay their hands on.

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[Lang]

Hanno

Reason for the trailer is the "Back to the Track" convoy in July from Alice Springs to Darwin for VJ Day 75th (put off because of Covid from last year. I think there are 150 WW2 vehicles booked in for the 1,500km run. Only trouble is it is 3,000km to the start and another 3,000km home from Darwin.

I was going to take my 1/2 ton Dodge but it will be 7,000km from Brisbane to back home again. At my age I decided I could do without the noise so I am looking at a Chevrolet Staff Car to do the trip in comfort which will require a camper trailer. There are plenty of wonderful light weight civilian campers available but one of those little WW2 trailers would look great behind the Chevrolet

Lang

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

I think the trailer crossing the Rhine is one captured from the German army or even a civilian one.

As these are so rare, one would have many degrees of freedom building a replica.

You may want to consider building your own trailer like the Canadian 1st Division did in Italy. I’ll look op the thread on here later, but basically they turned the back halves of GS trucks in trailers or built their own on any chassis they could lay their hands on.

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I think the trailer on the pontoon bridge is actually the back half of a small motor van, like a Morris 10cwt or similar, might even have been made up before they left the UK