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Grabbed a few pics of the M931 w/o fifth wheel, departing the G749 farm for greener pastures. They sure can climb hills.

I can't even find the book where Mr. Henderson dug up the first picture so feeling a little useless. It looks like the 2 bolts are still holding the lifting hook plate in place so it makes sense that the big bolts get pulled on the window frame. I have beat that keeper pin up with a small hammer...

I was fortunate enough to visit the Pima museum http://www.pimaair.org/ and tour your facility in 2010. The public needs to get out there and pay the admission to see these museums. The bus tour took us through the boneyard and we even got to see Just Another Non Existent Airline. Down the map...

New G749 Addict The Preservation Continues. Long story short,,,ha ha, I said long story short. Not likely. My phone rings and a deep voice says he got my number from some of the locals. Turns out this deep voice is a nearby neighbour of 40 years. He didn't make the connection until visiting...

Single vs Dually wheels G749 I loaned out a few books just today but there is a picture around with the off-sets we'll dig up. Meanwhile, here's the info out of TM 9-8024 and 9-1819AC

Here's the translation from CB's link. Long before the start of series production of the first armored fighting German High Command has initiated the construction of a sufficiently large training "armored vehicles" series made on the car chassis Adler "Standart-6". These machines are...

I appreciate the folks with enough fortitude to try this stuff so thanks to all the dirty mudders. It took 3 tries and finally 100,000 lbs of anchor trucks to unshtick a schtuck Sean after he did this. How many trucks would a schtuck sean stuck if a schtuck sean could stuck trucks. Old camera...

Most of the trucks I've seen up here have them. Usually they're tucked up above and beside the hitch, inside the rear cross-member. The B/O plate was mounted to the right side of the rear pumpkin. It doesn't show up in the electrical schematic or ORD 7 SNL G-749 so we'll need some aged...

First low pass jet visit from Canada It's been a long time since we backed Mutt up and posted some low flyers. As punishment, I'm starting over, from the beginning. This article claims that this is the first visit to Andrews Airforce base by one of our first jets. May 31, 1950.

G749 black out I hear rumors that the troops would pull these off trucks and use them as electrical testers, which is supposed to make them rare. This is the black-out light that mounts inside the back of the G749 frame and points toward the diff. In the Early Canadian Deuces, a white, steel...

I need one for the farm! :-) If you have any more details or some links to more information on it we'd appreciate it. I can usually find the data with searches but typing the word "Caterpillar" into a search engine here, gives me yellow bulldozers and insects. Thanks for sharing the...

We put them on trucks parked in the shop so they can be aired up and rolled outside quickly. The fire-trucks I've seen have their own hose that keep the tanks full all the time. Very handy.

M135 G749 duties The M135 had more roles than a Canadian donut shop. Besides their common role as a cargo truck they were also being assigned to tasks that haven't happened yet. This document outlines their use as a casualty transport unit. Part of their job would have been a front-line...

G749 Preservation It's a Big Birthday day around the G749 family with Dad celebrating the same day ol' Goose the M135 was delivered. March 16. It's been a while since he's hung out around the pond but he's real happy showing off the decorative piece of the truck he built. We officially...

Swap meet season is the best season! Those are good finds and hopefully the distributor is the solution to the motor issues. The Picture loading challenges may be a symptom of site popularity, traffic, multiple loading of large format pics or other things I know nothing about. Some folks put a...

White Knight We potentially solved a mystery. Potential.... until the guy shows up that actually stenciled the M211 with "Attach Stuck White Knight Here", while in service. After chatting with a few gents that spent time in the Canadian Forces, we have been told that the white, base ambulances...

2 second glance On Dec. 1st, 2015, this fine young lady, my Mother, was hit in the drivers door at low speeds. The other driver didn't see her, pulled out at a T intersection....and tapped the door. Damage was light but the insurance tried to write it off. We battled for almost 3 months, won...

The area is easy to find on maps and here's a description of how it got it's name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_Loop The roads in Wales are labelled A so not sure what the M6 reference was about so good catch....learnin' to do! Let's kick off the airshow schedule with a 360° tour with...

G749 Electrical Welcome to the wild, wet and deep fording website. TM 9-8024 is the manual I snapped these from and most of the TM's are buried here. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/forumdisplay.php?118-Korean-War-to-VietNam-War-Vehicles-TMs The Electrical section runs from pages 279 thru 334 and...

Aye' mate, let's take a rip through Mach Loop in the driver's seat of a Typhoon. Descriptive narrative on every turn from the RAF. Searching "Mach Loop" nets a pile of crazy video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7qrYi8R_M