Thanks for the plug there. As you know my interest is in WW1 trucks and i was always dissapointed in finding so little to read on the subject, so i decided to write the articles myself. So far i have had published in Military Machines International articles on Autocar, Liberty B, Peerless, Pierce Arrow, Albion, Nash & Jeffrey Quad, Holt gun tractors, Thornycroft and in the latest issue Leyland. I have also written and intend to do more so on truck use in specific campaigns such as the Mexico puntivie expedition. I keep thinking that i will run out of ideas for future articles but i seem to have enough for the next three years or so.
The Thornycroft was our first WW1 truck to restore. It was taken off of a Welsh Mountain top where it had been driven into a shed to drive a water pump. The back of the lorry did not fit in the shed so the owner cut it off and scrapped it. The remains were thought by my Brother to be an entry level restoration (rather optimistically i thought) and were brought back to Devon.
As it was missing the engine Steve managed to find half of one in Lincoln and then some 10 years later a complete one from an overseas quarry. This is how it looked.
Anotehr rolling chassis was found in a forest near Salisbury which had been turned in to a shepherds hut:
We bought it, but had to clear the site and take away all the lumber.
When we got it home we realised it was a very good buy. here it is with a Peerless chassis on top:
Over the years we have found a lot more bits for it, but are still missing the diff, but we will get there.
Despite also being fascinated by Great War trucks I am almost totally hopeless at identifying them, and I have succeeded in missing every one of your articles except the Thornycroft one.
Quite a 'quirky' magazine, isn't it?!
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Tim, do you have these articles on file at all, and if so, would you be able to e-mail them to me? I'd be very interested in seeing them, especially the Albion and Holt ones. I've found out there's a WW1 living history event at the Milestones museum in Hampshire in a month or two's time, I don't know if they'll have the Thornycroft running but they seem to use it at any opportunity to
I have just bought the April edition with the excellent article on Leyland trucks, and 24 informative photographs. Now I just need to know which backnumbers to look for!
Thanks for your feedback, i welcome it all good and bad (although obviously i prefer the good). If anybody can come back and say "you got this wrong" that is fine, but do show me why I got it wrong.
I have been writing these for three years now and in several instances i have found further information or photographs which i would have liked to have included but it came too late. Such is the way of things.
Anyway, in answer to your question i believe that most of these can be obtained as back issues. The articles appeared in the following Months:
Leyland - April 2009 Thornycroft - Feb 2009 Albion - Oct 2008 Holt - June 2008 Trucks of the Mexican punitive expedition - March 2008 Pierce-Arrow - October 2007 Nash/Jeffery Quad - July 2007 Peerless - April 2007 Autocar - Nov 2006 Liberty B - May 2006
All articles are six pages long and have about 24 photographs, except the Liberty article which was 5 pages. In all instances so far I have included a photo or two of a survivor. However, with some more unusual makes in the pipeline that might not always be possible. I have (except for the Autocar), not gone down the route of variants, but tried to stick to the basic GS version - so no pictures of Leyland armoured cars i am afraid.
Anyway, i hope you can find them, either from MAP's website or at a military vehicle show.
Thank you for the information concerning the magazine publication dates. I have the U.S. Army manual for the Nash Quad, which has many interesting photographs and drawings which would be helpful to modellers,(sectional drawings showing the wheel profile, etc.), and I am going to try to assemble a "datafile" on this and some other vehicles. (I have a similar publication for the White Scout Car, and I believe others exist.) It does seem that you have the material for an excellent and interesting publication on the subject, particularly if there are more photographs available. I shall certainly look forward to further developments.
