According to my limited info. on these vehicles they were used a reconnaisance vehicles as well as 'staff/command cars', and were also issued to other allied nations. Extensive 'google' searches haven't come up with anything other than Pattons examples or 'standard' US useage.
Can anybody help with either pics of them in use with other allied forces, or in use as actual reconnaisance vehicles?

Yep - I'm getting one of the Skybow 'cheapies' from AccA and as usual don't wanna build it out of the box!

Dave:

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Those Skybow kits build like a dream -- very, very nice and wel worth the price.

Aussie had them Dave so did the majority of the Allies. Both in command car as well as radio form. The French used them a lot post war along with a lot of other surplus stuff supplied by the Americans.

I have a few pics but not sure if they are here at home or in the Archives already here on site.

Thanks for the help so far guys.

I guess what I was hoping for was to find that GSP wasn't the only person to stick a .50 on the WC57 (I want to use the winch!). I was planning to load it up with field gear, hopefully with Commonwealth markings, as a forward radio/reconnaisance vehicle, although well aware that better armoured vehicles were preferred for this purpose! I know we don't like saying "it never happened" but I'd prefer some proof before building it.

Aussie radio version. I have detail pics of the radios as well Dave if you want them

According to this site, us Dutch had them in the colonies. hth,

Richard "snowhand" Renes

That would be great Cliff, I may have found my subject. The radio should be buildable ok with any pics you have, I'd just need to track down some unit markings. I would assume that almost all Aussie infantry units would have been issued with the same vehicles??

Richard - Dutch use would also be ok with me, any references on markings etc? I don't have any books/articles at all on Dutch regiments/insignia.

in the pacific it would be either the 7th or 9th division. I can only guess here as well Dave but I do know that in the later stages of the pacific war that almost all vehicles were held in ordenance parks and issued to units on a 'needs for that operation' basis and then returned to the park. So these vehicles just had the army number and bridge classification on them, the formation mark being a removable panel. These also Had NO divisional insignia on them (ie the platapus over a boomerang of the 9th division)

hope this helps
Cliff.

PS> will post the radio pics later today

I will be looking into that... Right after WW2, the Dutch army bought a lot of surplus vehicles from both the British as well as the US.

Color would have been olive drab, markings in white, which probably wouldn't be that much different from those in use today.

Tomorrow I am visiting the central Library here in Rotterdam, as well as some of the better bookshops. Perhaps there are some books there about the subject.

Richard 'Snowhand' Renes

Dave here are the pics of the radio. Hope they are OK?

Cheers Mate, most useful.

That's strange...I have a French book called "Dodge sur les voies de la liberté" that shows this very picture : according to the caption, it is a French army WC58 in Indochina in 1952....

Frenchy