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20-04-08, 13:21
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mate what is needed is a bigger photo then the thumbnail you have posted. It is hard to tell if the engine has been removed or not due to the shadows and when you blow such a small photo up it distorts.
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20-04-08, 19:46
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It is difficult to say if the engine is missing or not. I did think I could see it still in place. How whould the FF have removed it without at least a portable hoist? Why would they anyway? Just a thought.
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20-04-08, 20:43
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@ Cliff; just click the thumbail and the bigger photo will open.
@ David; a fact is that the engines have been removed. The Italians can be excluded - they did not have Chevrolets down there and there is not the slightest evidence that they had returned to the site. The G-Patrol and the rest of the T-Patrol did not come to the place any more as well. They went back to Egypt on a route deeper the South. The Free French came there as the first party after the clash. Although the patrol was driving BEDFORD OY (or something like this), the French had Chevrolets amongst them as well - and they had very long supply lines. So, a reason to remove the engines would have been to win spares...
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20-04-08, 20:43
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You couldn't remove the engine without taking off the hood and that angled radiator brace.
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20-04-08, 21:14
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This would mean that if the engine was removed on above picture then the hood etc. should also be removed (nobody would fix it any more at a destroyed truck - except: Think that they were Fench ;-))
Is it this, what you mean?
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20-04-08, 23:43
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Kuno the big photo is not much bigger then the thumbnail but I agree with the others about the bonnet and radiator still being in place means the engine is probably still there as well.
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21-04-08, 01:37
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Which is not to say that the cylinder head, ancillary stuff etc. could not have been removed.
To my eyes, something is missing but I agree that probably the entire engine block assembly could not be removed from the bottom. On the other hand, that was almost 70 years ago and not many of us have ever removed an engine from a vehicle in the desert. Bill
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21-04-08, 01:50
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you are correct Bill I think something is missing too. Normally from that angle you would see part of the air cleaner and carby sticking up at least but looking at the photo you could be right and the head has been removed. But again it would have been easier to remove it if the bonnet was removed first.
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