Back to 1945

Mercedes-Benz L4500S :



Ford V3000S :


Büssing-NAG 4500 :




Germany 1954 :

Airfield winch (for glider launching) on a Willys MB chassis :



(from this album )

BTW, the DAF truck used by our local gliding club may be of the same vintage


H.P.

White M3A1 converted into a flatbed truck:

http://www.desertclassics.com/Sold7/nash.html

Sadly the pictures are small and the quality is bad, would love to see more of it and especially how they did the bed.

Is this a halftrack with a fifth wheel?



John

The picture above is not very clear, but I guess it's the same conversion as below :


H.P.

Yeah, thanks Frenchy. Looks to be the same

John

A fairly easy conversion, no? Lots of surplus rear axles available from busted trucks. Find a driveshaft and set to with a cutting torch, later today I am going to go take some pictures of a couple of half-tracks I know personally that served time post-war in the lumber industry in Maine. At least two DAK POW camps in the Maine lumber industry as well. I will take pictures of the drive line for sure. I bet there is at least one modeling soft-skinner eyeballing this conversion

Very cool!!!

Civilian M746 tractor (WardLaFrance) and some trailer used by 'Aircraft Recovery Group" in Franklin Park (Cook county) Illinois


I happened to find the image while Googling for M746 (see thread about M747 trailer by Minimanfactory).
If we all start wishing for a model of the M746 maybe our combined mental energies will convince the Cosmic Powers that the world needs one ....

/ Robin

Ok, so no surplus axle or driveshaft needed. Find a wheel set with the correct bolt pattern and then start in cutting off what you don't want

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