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16-02-06, 22:46
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Australian experience
Our FGTs were built from Canadian chassis as were all our other CMPs with a couple of differences - cab 13 winch equiped CMPs other than the FGT and CGT had Australian fitted winches without the cable guards and with Australian (same as early Canadian pattern) front fairleads. The FGT and CGT No 8 and 9 had cable guards and the Canadian front fairleads.
Running gear in the FGT chassis was all 15CWT type; although they had 2-speed transfer case, brake booster, low speed diffs and 20" wheels, they had no helper springs and used 4 7/8" steering ends and small brakes as well as the light steering box, making it pretty much the same chassis as the Canadian cab 11 and 12 FGT. All the written material I've seen shows the cab 13 Beetleback FGT should have had 6" steering ends. Who can check the survivng ones for us?
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