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#121

Post by Bill Murray » 21 Jul 2005, 12:23

Morning Steve:
Thank you so much for your latest assortment. That kind of post really makes my day!!
1. 39 Chev
2, 38 Chev
3. 39 Chev
4. 39 Chev & Opel Super 6 I believe with an unuusual phaeton body.
5. 40 Chev
6. 38 Chev with Holzgaz Apparat & a Citroen
6, 7, 8. 1940 Packard 180
9. I am not sure yet if this is a Buick or a Studebaker
10. 35/36 Plymouth or Dodge
11. 38 Chev
12. 40 Packard 180

Interesting the Packards. I read in a magazine history article on Packards in Europe that they had a very aggressive distributor in France and the Benelux area and one sees a disproportionate number of Packard photos in respect to the total number built. Popular with Diplomats apparently.

Many thanks again.
Bill

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#122

Post by Luftman129 » 22 Jul 2005, 02:34

I do believe that the 10th one is a '35 Plymouth. Here's another image that I found that gives me no doubt in my mind.

http://www.taxi-vos.nl/35'%20Plymouth.jpg

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Chris


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#123

Post by stoveb » 22 Jul 2005, 03:29

Thanks Bill & Chris,

Always good to share stuff!

Here are some new images from ebay, of beute vehicles in Crete, firstly an Autocar truck and I think a Humber Snipe;

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Steve
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#124

Post by stoveb » 22 Jul 2005, 03:31

and two images of a Ford WOT (I think...)

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Steve
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#125

Post by Bill Murray » 24 Jul 2005, 17:50

Morning Steve:
I believe all of your IDs are correct. That Autocar or actually Autocars, is very interesting indeed and one wonders how they found their way to Crete. Pretty well had to have come via NA post Rommell.
Here are some for you. I am not sure what the first one is.
And, a very rare International that may have come from Benelux or Norway
Finally a not too good shot of the 4X4 Chevs taken from the French
Bill
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#126

Post by jmehner » 24 Jul 2005, 19:44

Bill,

I don't know about your first pic, that looks awfully stateside to me, and the trucks could be GMC ACX 353s?

Cheers,

JM

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Post by Bill Murray » 24 Jul 2005, 21:10

JM:
Yup, ACK 353's they are. I am just reorganizing my photo files and some are mis-identified by the source and I should not be so careless. Here is another partial photo of a GMC.
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Post by stoveb » 25 Jul 2005, 02:59

Hi Bill,

I think your unidentified truck is some sort of Büssing-NAG, civilian version impressed into service by the Wehrmacht,
check out these images from the Old Timer website; which in turn come from pages 44-45 of Frank's "Trucks of the Wehrmacht"

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Steve
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Post by stoveb » 25 Jul 2005, 05:47

Another Bedford OYC truck, getting a body added to the rear. From ebay

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Post by stoveb » 25 Jul 2005, 23:36

Hi guys,

A Commer Q2 facing the Russian climate, would this have been a beute from 1940 or a beute from a Lend-lease vehicle?

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Post by Bill Murray » 25 Jul 2005, 23:44

Nice shot Steve: Not only a beute but apparently an umbau as well. I would bet ex Dunkirk.
Oliver Missing, who has done extensive research on Lend Lease to Russia, does not list any Commers as having been supplied by the UK.
Keep them coming!!!
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#132

Post by stoveb » 25 Jul 2005, 23:48

Some more Chevrolet trucks,

three more images, two of which are from a prevoiusly posted 1938 Chev van including a rear shot, all from ebay of course
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Steve
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#133

Post by stoveb » 26 Jul 2005, 03:01

and three more images of 1938 Chevrolet trucks, taken in Denmark I believe according to the seller's captions but it looks a bill too mountainous for Denmark (?), this time with fold-down cab tilt, all from ebay

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Steve
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#134

Post by Bill Murray » 26 Jul 2005, 09:59

Just a quickie Steve, it is 4 AM and I just had to go to the loo.
I saw those too on eBay and did not see a reference to Danmark. The trucks are prototypically Belgian and the landscape would fit that locale as well.
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#135

Post by stoveb » 27 Jul 2005, 03:44

Hi Bill,

yes, I think you're right, I mixed up the location with the series of Büssing-NAG photos with the building supplies for the camp... oops.

Anyways, here are two more cars that look American to me, first one maybe a Chev, second I don't know.

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