wreckers and recovery

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Rob Beale
on the Guy FBAX of the support for the gantry beam shows cross bracing in the side framework in the fore and aft direction. Is there more bracing across the truck?
Has any one got any details of the sizes of the support frame members? or a drawing? Usually the wartime photos show the canopy fitted so these details are hidden.

hi Rob,

These Breakdown Gantry bodies were used right through to the Austin K6 in 1944. I have some recent experience of several of the Austin version, so am quite familiar with the construction. I do have a lot of photos of a body before restoration, showing all these details, but cannot find them at present. The front and rear "hoops" are made of substantial channel and the cross braces are to support them. The braces are only as you see them, all coming from a rectangualr plate affixed to the body sides. The ends of the braces are riveted to the plate. If I can find my photos, I will post the relevant ones.

Richard