Bombay Chev

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Here is a picture of a Chevrolet 1541X3 3-ton 4x2 GS truck, known as "Bombay Chev". Does anybody have any other views of this type of truck, especially the cargo body?

Thanks,
Hanno

8e00200r.jpg
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8e0000...0/8e00200r.jpg
Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

CAPTION: The old and the new meet on a military highway in India. Though motor transports carry much of the supplies, the camel, which has been the beast of burden from time immemorial, is drafted to do his part in the war effort also.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1942?

NOTES
Title and other information from caption card.

Iamge source: U.S. Army Signal Corps.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

SUBJECTS
Film negatives.
India.

MEDIUM
1 negative ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

CALL NUMBER
LC-USW33- 000364-ZC

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USW33-000364-ZC DLC (b&w film neg.)

PART OF
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540

DIGITAL ID
(intermediary roll film) fsa 8e00200 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8e00200