Military Vehicles, January 1997,: Re: Budd / Fruehauf address wtd. (was: M151-series body drawings, dimensions etc.)
Re: Budd / Fruehauf address wtd. (was: M151-series body drawings, dimensions etc.)
Gale Barrows (barrowsg@rapidnet.com)
Sat, 4 Jan 1997 11:46:00 -0700 (MST)
>Gale Barrows wrote:
>>Budd, the wheel makers, address unknown, was a primary body manufacturer for
>>the M151 series. I have seen Ford, Kaiser Jeep, and AM General makers plates
>>on bodies with the Budd plate. They might have info on the dimensions. I
>>would also bet that there is a maintainance manual somewhere (a manual
>>covering body repair would be most likely) that has the info. Of cpourse,
>>the best way is to borow an uncut vehicle you cn take measurements from., If
>>you can find cut bodies, a jig could easily be made useing an uncut truck as
>>a pattern. And all that woukld be needed would be a 4 point jig for bodies
>>cut into two pieces and a six point jig for bodies cut into 4 pieces. I have
>>troubles getting in my size 12 feet in and out of M151's with either the
>>soft or hard doors inmplace. If a front and rear half could be found with
>>the combined length longer through the door area of an uncut vehicle, the
>>sections could be assembled a few inches longer in the door area.
>
>Lengthening the body by two or three inches certainly sounds like a good
>idea (I've got size 12, too).
>
>I've read that when Ford started quantity production of the M151 in 1960 (at
>the Highland Park factory in Michigan), the bodies for them were built by
>Fruehauf.
>Can anyone supply me with either Fruehauf and /or Budd addresses (or point
>me in their direction)?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hanno Spoelstra <H.L.Spoelstra@WbMt.TUDelft.NL>
>Bloemendaal, The Netherlands
>
>
>
I was able to come up with a maybe address for Fruehauf Trailer Co., 111
Monument Circle
#3200, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46204. Phone 317-630-3000.
Gale Barrows
Black Hills of South Dakota