Snorkel or Radio antenna holes in my Cab 13 ????

[rob love]

I had similar holes in my KL welder. I thought they may have run the exhaust pipe through the cab for heat. Would be a bugger during the summer mind you.

[Mark Towers]

Hi Rob,

You could be right about the exhaust fitting for heating the cab ! That does seem logical ... And the holes top and bottom are on the correct side of the cab for the exhaust to run up that way !

I hope we get more replys to this thread to know for sure

Kind regards

Mark

[rob love]

Mine had holes around the roof opening that resembled a 19 set antenna aerial base. There was nothing on the floor though.

Despite the frozen temps here in Canada, and especially here on the prairies (Shilo was used by both Canada and the USA for Arctic testing of equipment over the years) heaters seemed to be far and few between on military eqiupment until the late 60s. As a yong militiaman, all our M-135 2-1/2 tons had for winter use were frost shields for the windshields and side windows. But there was nothing to provide heat unless you count the little trap door on the floor for the master cylinder. This changed marginally in the mid 80s when the M35Cdn had a heater as standard equpment. It would at least keep the windows partilly defrosted, and given enough time, could possibly melt an icecube.