Help please!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #1 23-02-07, 22:23

Can I please have some assistance with this conundrum? I have just got back from Cumbria working on the new Pearson's of Liverpool book, with plenty of CMPs, wartime and post-war (and Canadian Jeeps, Diamond Ts) for you deliction. However this photo is defeating interpretation. It is from June 1945, and shows what appears to be a very high quality rebuild of an office (we have three views). It now has Lucas lights, a "tank" on the roof, different hubs front and rear, twin tanks, and what looks like a tax disc! However the driver's wiper blade is missing! I am stumped...we have had suggestions before that as it is Winterized it might have been intended for Norway.

Grant Bowker · #2 23-02-07, 23:41

Are you sure it is winterised? It seems to me that the fuel filler neck is so far forward on the main tank that it looks like the neck for the small tank used to feed the primer system. I can't make out whether there is provision for the crankcase diluter on the windshield post or whether any of the provisions for warming the battery are in place. What other features can be used in a view like this one to determine whether the vehicle is winterized or arcticised?

Vic Eaton · #3 23-02-07, 23:49

HELLO ALL
This first picture of the chev looks to me like a c30 wireless truck just like the one i have the strange thing is it was used for camping by the then owner after being used on an airfield just after the end of the war it cant be this one surley ?
regards vic eaton

David_Hayward (RIP) · #4 24-02-07, 13:35

This is the other side. I am debating what that "tank" on the roof is for, apart from say water?

David_Hayward (RIP) · #5 24-02-07, 13:40

I think that this is the inside view, as against a similar Lindsay house -style body that was used post-war for medical purposes.

David_Hayward (RIP) · #6 24-02-07, 13:44

Note the new tyre, nice repainted steps, and closed doors.

Vic Eaton · #7 24-02-07, 15:07

HELLO DAVID
Thanks for the great pictures the one i have here has the same side lights as in the picture is that a ford or chev difficult to tell the one i have was winterized with the dilutor tank enclosed coil and a host of other things the heater had gone but the instruction plate from the side was still laying in the back all the holes were there where it had been including the fuel tank at front of body and internal leads for the batt box i was glad to see an inside view of the rear body.
vic uk.

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #8 24-02-07, 15:42

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
I think that this is the inside view, as against a similar Lindsay house -style body that was used post-war for medical purposes.

But where is the wide-screen TV and the beer fridge?

sapper740 · #9 24-02-07, 17:04

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
I think that this is the inside view, as against a similar Lindsay house -style body that was used post-war for medical purposes.

In this pic you can see the pipe and faucet from the tank on the roof coming down just to the left of the table. Must be for water as I doubt they would pipe anything else to the interior of the box. I'm thinking mobile Dentist's office perhaps? Please swish and spit! Any fittings in the floor for a drain?
Also, the spare tyre is stowed just as the spare on my C15 when I first purchased it. I was told by the previous owner that my CMP had a large box on the back that the owner before him used as a camper. He thought it was a wireless box but had no proof that it was. He removed it decades ago and it has since been thrown away. I do know that my truck was ex-Argentinian and that the frame had been lengthened approximately 30" in the past to C30 length.

sapper740 · #10 24-02-07, 17:14

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Note the new tyre, nice repainted steps, and closed doors.

The spare tyre location on my C15 can be seen on a previous thread: CMP ID Need help

David_Hayward (RIP) · #11 24-02-07, 20:29

This one was indeed converted to a Dentist's for a health authority.

fc101daz · #12 25-02-07, 10:15

The story goes that mine was a dentists truck that came to Jersey with the liberating forces.This seems likely as dental care must have been minimal during the occupation.I have a few months off work soon and hope to get to the Jersey Archive and see if I can find any pics of it coming off the landing craft to verify this story.It has no body at all,but if I could gather enough info/pics/drawings I'm tempted to replicate one
Daren

Vic Eaton · #13 25-02-07, 11:04

HELLO DAREN
You will have your work cut out building a body although the main structure is straight forward and i could send you any measurments you need the problem would be the blinds and thier frames there are six of them with roller blinds then of course there are the rear steps it would be poss to make those . I think i counted four hundred and thirty rivits in each side of the body the roof is canvas covered onto wood then strips of wood to walk on so that would not be too bad the body is light gauge channel the sheet metal rivits to the flat face that faces out then wood is put into the channel for the inside skin to fix to .
regards vic .uk

Vic Eaton · #14 25-02-07, 11:11

HELLO DAVID
I have noticed the fuel tank .i thought the little fuel tank fitted to the front of the body was for the arctic heater but this larger tank would make more sense so i wonder what the small tank was for as it was piped to the heater martin thinks it was just to prime the heater before switching to the run mode which would make sense ill have to read the instruction plate again .
regards vic .