From: Carol Kenyon (Da-Kenyons@webtv.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 22:50:51 PDT
I tend to ramble so I'm breaking this update up into pieces.
My '40 War Dept Manual only alludes to a
"central Army vehicle registration records office" it doesn't contain
that info...
Jim Gilmore shook my belief system to its roots when he pointed out
the flaw--no gloss brown (old Army) paint on the conversion portion of
the panel.
However, he was right AND wrong.
True, my truck began as a "type 7' vehicle
(ambulance, thanks again Mr. Vaughn) but was
converted by the military for a use I may never
know..The conversion WAS OD green...
The converted ambulance (my guess) that Everette Doyle saw in Walnut
Ridge no doubt came from the same process?
What process?
Well, I happened to buy a '41 Ft. Warren Yearbook (QM Replacement
Center). The Training Center (TB=Trainee Built?) had huge numbers of
men that needed "projects" or something in the way of a trade-related
work to do.
One "project" is shown in the yearbook. A '36 or so Chevy 1.5 ton
AMBULANCE is being converted for ???? A square hole (like my panel) is
shown cut out of the panel side...
Looks like my truck is the result of an Army
program to recycle certain vehicles for re-use?
My truck was just about obsolete for Army use from new...2wd, civilian
styling, etc.
Don
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