Armoured 15 CWT's wrecks at Dutch exercising grounds

[john bom]

In the past a number of wrecked AFV's were strewn around on "De Vlasakkers" near the Dutch town of Amersfoort. This was the excersising grounds of the Cavalry training centre. Vehicles included were a couple of Shermans, a couple of M10 Sluggers, a Staghound command (without turret), a Chaffee and several armoured 15 CWT's.
Enclosed are some snapshots I took in the summer of 1972 of last mentioned vehicles . A number of years later all vehicles were have been removed.

Greetings,

John

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[john bom]

Some more, including two shots of a fully enclosed armoured 15 CWT with ring mounting on top.

Greetings John

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by john bom

Some more, including two shots of a fully enclosed armoured 15 CWT with ring mounting on top.

Fast forward 29 years: Geoff and I saw this C15TA at Johan Dieffenbach's collection in 2001. It was still basically complete then.

After Johan passed away acouple of years later, this C15TA ended up at Army Cars, was then sold/traded to Dirk where it was photographed (see pics below).

It was sold earlier this year to ???

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[Dusonn]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

It was sold earlier this year to ???

Hanno

Hello,
just stumbled accross this thread. This TA from Dirk went to its new home in Czech Republic. Our group is restoring it now to state as it served with the Czechoslovak Armored Brigade Group during WWII. They used to have 3 of them in service. You can see more from this restoration here. (go through the headlines, unfortunately it is in Czech only, so is our main website www.rotanazdar.cz (you might be interested in section "Veteran klub" where you find our other vehicles devided in the four sections on the left)
We have bought a running engine in the USA fot the TA which is waiting to be shipped over soon. We had to cut off the post war modification at the rear and now trying to work out how the roof section should look like right. The vehicle was sand-blasted and primed in special primer that allows further welding. There is still lots to do, but if everything goes all right we can get it to a driveble state this year.
We are looking for a Service Manual for this car though, so if anybody would have one for sale or be willing to make a photocopy or scan, it would be of a great help, as we need more information to get further. You can PM me or write on dusanklavik(at)seznam.cz Thanks.
Best regards,
Dusan Klavik

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Dusonn

Hello,
just stumbled accross this thread. This TA from Dirk went to its new home in Czech Republic. Our group is restoring it now to state as it served with the Czechoslovak Armored Brigade Group during WWII. They used to have 3 of them in service. You can see more from this restoration here. (go through the headlines, unfortunately it is in Czech only, so is our main website www.rotanazdar.cz (you might be interested in section "Veteran klub" where you find our other vehicles devided in the four sections on the left)
We have bought a running engine in the USA fot the TA which is waiting to be shipped over soon. We had to cut off the post war modification at the rear and now trying to work out how the roof section should look like right. The vehicle was sand-blasted and primed in special primer that allows further welding. There is still lots to do, but if everything goes all right we can get it to a driveble state this year.
We are looking for a Service Manual for this car though, so if anybody would have one for sale or be willing to make a photocopy or scan, it would be of a great help, as we need more information to get further. You can PM me or write on dusanklavik(at)seznam.cz Thanks.
Best regards,
Dusan Klavik

Hi Dusan..
Welcome to MLU forum..
Manuals can be purchased(museum quality copies) from Grant BOwker..he is having trouble with his web site but is a member of MLU and if you send him a personal message through MLU he should get you your manuals ..here is the maintenance manual for the Armoured truck..

#20: 300 pages NEW TA-C1 15 CWT. 4x4, CMP, TRUCK ARMOURED, Operation, Maintenance and Repair. (Jun.'44)

Here is the parts manual..

#19: 164 pages C15TA-02 GM CANADA, ILLUST. PARTS LIST, TRUCK, ARMOURED , 15 CWT. CWT. 4x4. MOD. C15TA. Chassis 8449 (Apr.'45))

Grant Bowker..
The New Mr.Manual..
Alex Blair
The Retired Mr.Manual

[Dusonn]

Alex, thank you for the tip, I have sent Grant a message so hopefully I can get the manual I need.

Best regards,

Dusan

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by john bom

A number of years later all vehicles were have been removed.

John,

Thanks for sharing these great period pictures! Luckily a number of these C15TA´s were preserved from scrapping.

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

John, Thanks for sharing these great period pictures! Luckily a number of these C15TA´s were preserved from scrapping.

Hanno, Do you know where the "saved" ones were taken? I am only asking out of an outrageous desire to get one...

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Hanno, Do you know where the "saved" ones were taken? I am only asking out of an outrageous desire to get one...

Rob,

All the ones that were saved ended up at good homes.

A fellow Canadian also had an outrageous desire to get one and actually shipped one back to Canada!

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[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

A fellow Canadian also had an outrageous desire to get one and actually shipped one back to Canada!

Yes. An incredible thread. I hope to get some close up footage of Barry's C15TA this coming summer (assuming it will be proudly displayed at a few events).

Makes me want one more...

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Yes. An incredible thread. I hope to get some close up footage of Barry's C15TA this coming summer (assuming it will be proudly displayed at a few events).

Makes me want one more...

I'm first in line, ya git....