Interestingly, my M35A2 with winch had both the door and bridge plate
numbers as "8" when I got it out of DRMO.
They don't even get it right, Eh?
----- Original Message -----
From: <DDoyle9570@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] The Bridge Plate Question
> In a message dated 11/2/01 3:55:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
grafj@krause.com
> writes:
>
> << Dave can you or anyone else shed the
> light on the weight sticker located on the passenger door of M series
> vehicles. Its the only thing I don't have on my truck because I don't
> know if
> the number should be the same as the front or should it actually be the
> empty weight............since you cannot change it every day??????
>
> a M35A2, a M54A2C and a M62 that will need the weight sign on the
> passenger door.>>
>
> Jeff,
> This is a subject that causes a lot of confusion for collectors,
> unfortunately, space consideration forced the three photos of door
markings
> to be left out. If you want, I can email them to you.
> However, the weight class displayed permanently on the right side of the
> vehicle is the unladen weight classification.
> The following are the unladen weight classifications for the vehicles in
your
> collection. This information comes from Table C-3 of FM 5-36, March 1985.
>
> M35A2 6 (M35 and M35A1 are class 5)
> M54A2C 8 without winch
> M54A2C 9 with winch
> M62 16 (I erroneously marked mine as 17, which is the class for the
M543
> family of wreckers)
>
> Hope this helps,
> David
>
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