CMPs in France

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

The headlamp itself would have been readily available, but it would have been very difficult to find an original CMP headlamp bowl to replace the blank plate on the driver's side. Interestingly this problem doesn't seem to have arisen on Australian CMPs, as they all appear to have been fitted with two headlamps at assembly.
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I'm inclined to query the lowering of headlamps to comply with road regs - could it not be that the bumper bar was simply the easiest place to mount new headlamps?

Tony,

It is a known fact that in some countries (Belgium, Denmark) the headlight position of CMPs was too high to comply to road regulations. So for registered use on the road, one had to fit (new) headlamps in a lower position.

In other countries without this type of regulation like the Netherlands they had no trouble finding a second headlight bowl from the vast post-war spares stocks, if they hadn't one fitted already (like in Australia).

Hanno

[Tony Wheeler]

On reading this thread I'm reminded of my first blitz, which I bought as a kid in 1973, and which Keith and I later realized was Canadian built, having a circular roof hatch hole and distinctive Canadian checkerplate floor. I've also just noticed (40 years later!) it had early type CMP bonnet catches, which were never used on Australian built cabs. Evidently it had been fitted with only one headlamp too, and in the absence of a replacement headlamp bowl, this required fitment of complete new headlamps on brackets as seen below. This problem didn't arise with Australian built CMPs, as these were all fitted with two headlamps at assembly.

Naturally the new headlamps in this case were fitted in the original position - here in Australia we don't have bizarre regulations prohibiting truck headlamps! I'm curious to know what possible reason could exist to outlaw CMP headlamps, which are barely higher than bicycle headlamps, and what possible use are headlamps at road level!

[Jacek Nitkiewicz]

French lamps CIBIE on my C15

[Gordons]

Hello Jacek

Would it be possible to get a close up picture of the door window frames, they look look to be metal, and not the original canvas window frame.\


Thank you
Gordon

[Jacek Nitkiewicz]

My chevy has quite few french modifications , I will open new thread for this project.