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1940 Chevrolet Heavy-Duty GS 
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2015-07-21 12:12 |
![[Image: 19-25a.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/19-25a.jpg) ![[Image: 19-35a.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/19-35a.jpg) |
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◊ 2015-07-21 12:40 |
Chevrolet ? certainly not a mainstream British army truck. Open cab and narrow tyres unusual at this stage in war. -- Last edit: 2015-07-21 12:41:35 |
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◊ 2015-07-21 12:57 |
Left hand drive so Chevrolet would fit, but I don't have any idea of seeing a similar British army truck like this before. Could be CZ??533? number on the bonnet so possibly Canadian Army vehicle, the number does not start Z I think so not British (UK) originally. -- Last edit: 2015-07-21 12:58:16 |
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◊ 2015-07-21 14:00 |
I appears it could be a Chevrolet WB 4x2 30-cwt truck or basically the civilian truck chassis that preceeded it with an open cab. Fully militarised version used in the Long Range Desert Group? https://www.flickr.com/photos/11200205@N02/17855953592 |
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◊ 2015-07-21 16:41 |
Could be of American origin,has van versions of this type of vehicle,to be used has ambulances were supplied lend lease from America to Britain,but not seen this type before. -- Last edit: 2015-07-21 16:42:04 |
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◊ 2015-07-22 11:36 |
The best identification I can make is that its a civilian based Chevrolet WA chassis/scuttle with locally produced body (the WA being supplied initally before the WB). http://www.sa-transport.co.za/trucks/chev/chevvy_truck_vvtes_ldp.JPG Bulldog badge - Eastern Command's wartime HQ at Luton, covering East Anglia and the Central Midland Counties, the area used for filming being Northamptonshire. edit: Model of "Chevy W8 30cwt GS truck" (probably an error for 'WB' not 'W8'). ![[Image: bv2057.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/bv2057.jpg) -- Last edit: 2015-07-22 14:30:18 |
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◊ 2015-07-23 03:41 |
Most certainly a 1939-40 Chevrolet chassis with flat face cowl, with the 1940 specs (small park lamps on the fenders and thick upper grille bar). So, as heavy-duty 1½-ton / 30 cwt model, a WA (133"/3.38 m wheelbase) or a WB (158½"/4.03 m wheelbase). A 1939 model (with a thinner upper grille bar and no park lamps) would have been a VB or a VD. If the truck of this page has for sure the 133", then a WA indeed. But this is a factory model code, and it shouldn't be used as model name. Civilian 1½-ton models of that time were just called Heavy-Duty by Chevrolet, but with such a cab, this one is clearly not a civilian model  It could be an early LRDG truck, as you also said, Sunbar. But not a "standard" model, which had no (soft- or hard-top) cab and a different rear part. The Heavy Section and Headquarters/Survey models were apparently based at first on several different trucks. In any case, I think that using both WA/WB and 30 cwt is an unnecessary repetition, as the Wx code already "says" that the truck is a 30 cwt / 1½-ton model from 1940... And were all army vehicle GS (General Service) models? _____ With what could be the 158½" wheelbase indeed, but without the park lamps on the fenders and what seems to be a thin upper bar in the grille, I think that this truck is more likely a 1939 VD model... |
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