8cwt 4x2 Field Artillery Tractor

[Alex van de Wetering]

Come to think of it.....maybe the Germans were man enough to use captured 8cwt's as artillery tractors ......

[motto]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Come to think of it.....maybe the Germans were man enough to use captured 8cwt's as artillery tractors ......

Man enough or desperate enough. I worked with an Austrian who had been on the Russian front and well remember his tale of towing a Pak 38 with a Zundapp motorcycle outfit. One particular story was of negotiating a slippery down hill run where the gun overtook him and towed the Zundapp backwards to the bottom of the descent.
Exciting times in more ways than one.

David.

[Grant Hopkins]

In looking through the body parts book I have, "plate 8" is the illustration of a single seat with the caption of 8-cwt 4x2-Field Artillery Tractor. The body parts list of the 8cwt 4x2 indicates the seats to be illustrated on plate 8, flipping forward through the manual to the FAT it indicates that it's seats are also illustrated by plate 8. Seems fairly likely that the seats for the 2 vehicles are the same or similar and are both referenced back to the same drawing rather than inferring that there exists a 8cwt 4x2 FAT.

[cletrac (RIP)]

The ATT-1 anti tank tractor was a cab 11 15 cwt with a 2A1 body.

[Lauren Child]

I could imagine something like this being used to tow a mortar trailer or similar. That might have attracted a FAT nomenclature.

[Niels V]

Could it have been for towing the 2pdr gun or the small bofors anti tank gun ? Those guns would fit nicely with a 8cwt