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Chevrolet C60X in Australian service
Mike Cecil has just written an excellent and detailed account of the C60X in Australian service which he has allowed me to put onto the Old CMP site.
If only we had this level of detail on all CMP models! Have a look here.
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Re: Chevrolet C60X in Australian service
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Thank you Mike and Keith (not all links at http://www.oldcmp.net/C60X_1.html work, though). H. |
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Links
I'll check them again, thanks for the alert, Hanno.
Some of the images hadn't been uploaded - they're there now. Check out the PMG ex-No4 breakdown, or is it perhaps a "Truck, crane, 2000 pounds"?
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C60X exhaust
Keith, have you or Mike found any reference to the RAAF refuellers having the exhaust re-routed (or originally specified)with the muffler behind the front bumper? I have been rold this was done to:
1. Keep the hot exhaust pipe away from the AVGAS, and 2. Keep the exhaust gas away from the operator who stood next to the truck while transferring fuel. This was a design feature that was reputedly recommended for the ACCO after good results on the refeullers. |
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'42 BritishContract for Australia
S/M 2510 3-TON 6 X 6 160” W.B. 60 supplied by October 1942
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Another contract for C60X
I have a pic of a data plate of a R107 model, 866070143, contract SM-PE-211-16
The R107 was a GM-H code for a RAAF vehicle as opposed to WO (War Office) for army deliveries.
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6x6 varieties
Somewhere in this stack of over a dozen vehicles that contains GMC Soft Cab CCKW's, GMC Hard Cab CCKW's and Studebaker US6's is a C60X ! Can you see it? Like a huge game of Ker-Plunk, could the Victorians pull it out without toppling the stack?
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Engine # prefix
Note the stamped [by Holden] 'PR' prefix to the US 270 engine number. 'PR' was of course a prefix applied to 1944 model Chevrolet CMP 216 engines, 'R' standing for right-hand drive. Never seen that before!
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Article text
The link is dead, text copied here, pics may follow later?
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Long time ago!
Was it really 15 - 16 years ago I wrote that article?? Time flies when we are having fun, eh?
Much has happened since then, of course. I retired from the AWM ten years ago, so the title 'Acting Head MHT' is well and truly in the past - just so current readers don't get confused. Best regards Mike |
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On the article is refered the C60X twin boom RAAF crane, but a larger recovery crane isn't mentioned (also used with other base trucks, like the gmc353). Was it a unlisted conversion, or is civil origin machine?
I have researched this from a long time, some photos have appeared, but technical information almost nothing, only that have a 10ton rate. There are some posts about it: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9160 http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=14112 image source: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...2&postcount=75 Cheers! G_Mendes Last edited by Goncalo Mendes; 02-07-20 at 00:37. Reason: images, grammar |
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Truck, 3 ton Breakdown (Aust) No.4 | 120 | Army" Pic courtesy of Keith Webb
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Pt Cook
Back in the 1970s, used to be a yellow C60X fueller at the Pt Cook RAAF museum complex, in its early days . Don't know what became of that vehicle . Also there was a nice Austin K6 at Essendon airport ... Where are these vehicles today ?
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Yellow C60X
I think that might be the one which wound up in a yard in Alexandra in an extremely rusty condition. I believe it was eventually scrapped. Of course they would have had more than one when they were in service so perhaps it is tucked away in one of the hangers. They have quite a few vehicles there.
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