Wireless Van C15 Australian

[Rod Salter]

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[Rod Salter]

Years past and we occasionally dropped by for a chat

In the meanwhile I did a trade for a ford with a crane attached, it needed some parts

Then we were told the brother in law had passed, and her son was to tidy up the paddock and maybe sell off some of the trucks.
We visited at an arranged time to look over and discuss the trucks
Time moved on and eventually he and I came to an arrangement to buy 3 trucks, - the wireless cab/chassis and 2 relics of fords.
On the day of my brother-in-law and I picking them up I bought another long chev cab/chassis, in a hurry, while the crane was there

[Rod Salter]

Home at last

[David Dunlop]

Nice recovery, Rod.


David

[Rod Salter]

Thanks David, I should get back to posting about the radios and field phones

After the excitement cooled down, I had an engine-less C15 A with the remains of a drivers cab that had been chopped from a wireless van, half the floor was chopped out too, it had a strange front axle with a draw-bar attached. Rust everywhere, particularly the bottom of the rear of the cab.
The top of the cab was still squared where the storage boxes would have been. But no hatch door, no dash.
The remaining windscreen has three bullet holes!
From the clues of the drawbar and the blocks of wood, I would say the chassis had a huge steel bin attached to take grain from the paddocks

[Rod Salter]

The sad cab

[Rod Salter]

The second long chev was discovered to be also the remains of a wireless truck, the cab chopped off and the chassis cut and extended to a long truck. The drivers section of floor and nose were in reasonable condition as was the bottom of the cab rear. But the top of the cab had been beaten into a rounded shape. It had a hatch door, 2 seats, 2 windscreens, an engine cover and the remains of the dash. The only pieces of dash being useful, will be the ignition switch and the little labels for three switches. It has a “START” button


Neither had doors, steering boxes, motors or gear/transfer boxes. The long chassis had no rear diff centre or axles
I also bought an assortment of loose wheels

I had no actual wireless box.

I lifted off both the cabs [neither was attached/lucky they didn't blow off] and removed the strange front axle from the C15 chassis, replacing that with the front axle from the extended chassis, making it 4wd.