FWD SU-COE Medium Artillery Tractor

[Oliver Missing]

Originally posted by Richard Farrant
Hanno,
I agree with you, but did note that in my original 1969 book the diesel engined tractor, is a model CU, its not a mistake because it is written on the front of the truck....had to use a magnifying glass to read.
Regarding one in the States. the US Corps of Engineers had another variation, same page of '69 book, a YU, with a different model Waukesha engine to the SU-COE. Probably fitted with winch as it was fitted with a derrick.
Richard

Richard,
I, too, think it was a "SU" and not a "CU", although the Russians loved diesel engined trucks and Britain forwarded many LL trucks to Russia in order to meet the US truck delivery obligations of the Moscow protocol.
So, we got 2,348 SU-COE tractor chassis of which 2,148 were supplied to the Empire and upgraded to a MAT.
But what happened to the 90 chassis for the SU ?
Where they delivered "naked", could they have been used without any body ?
I guess we'll never know.
Oliver.