what did the "other guys" do during world war 2 ???

Ford made the universalcarrier
out of truckparts with a modified
flathead (fulflow oilfilter and pcv)
i bought two of them for the engines

 

Read a good article in an WW2 era Life magazine, a photographer travelling across Africa with the military. In at least one place they were using 1/2 ton Chevrolet pickups. Don't forget the Dodge Power Wagons. When civilian automotive production stopped, Philco and Motorola were stuck with thousands of car radios which they installed in console cabinets with an AC power supply. The most common model is a Philco/Chrysler. (I have two)

As for family, my father's father was a farmer growing truck crops and had 3 kids by Pearl Harbor. Deemed vital to stay home and raise food for the troops. He indirectly made his biggest killing off the war. There was essentially zero road maintenance during those years and when it was over the county was desperate for good gravel to fix things up. He had the only decent stuff in the county. My mother's father, sadly, served overseas and came home a shattered drunk, killed by the bottle within a few years.

 

Heo2 have you checked the collector value of those universal carriers? You may rethink junking them for the engines.

This is the Ford version of the "Weasel" personnel carrier. Studebaker's was the same but with a flathead six Studebaker engine.

 

LandSeanandAir

I love the Willys ad. Is that one you have or did you find that online somewhere ?

And Heo2...like Rusty says, that T-16 is a rare bird, or at least much harder to come by than Studebakers.

 

I just Googled it.

 

I believe it was Revlon that went from making lipstick tubes to 30 Cal bullets in something like 2 weeks time.My mother in law worked in a cotton mill turned bomb sight maker and my maternal grand mother worked in another cloth mill that made submarine periscopes another cloth mill here turned partly into making machine gun belt clips that snapped between the rounds to form belts of ammo "The whole 9 yards" When I joined United Aircraft (Pratt&Whitney Aircraft) I was taught tig& plasma welding by 2 ladies that started there during WWII!and yes one of them was Named "Rosie"With out enough men to do the jobs on the home front massive amounts of woman stepped in to get the job done.

 

Im not junking them just borrow the engines
The studebaker Weasel is a completly different bird.
I got a couple of them to. Both the M29,M29c with
floating device and a T24 with parachute mounts to
drop from the air when they planed to blow up
the germans heavy wather factory in Norway
but they never got used for that.
They are not armoured like the carrier and the carrier is bigger

 

Ain't that the truth, up here in Canada we're in the same boat.

 

As Ole Don commented,Maytag parts on the Allison V-12's including this
siamese W-24 version:





Hudson was all in supplying pistons for the Wright Cyclones,Hudson Invader marine engines,20mm anti-aircraft guns and sub-assemblies for
various aircraft including the B-26,P-38,and SB2C Helldiver.

 

Don't forget your Canadian brothers, they played a huge role as well.

 

Everybody went to war whether they were enlisted or not. We will never see that again.

 

Here on the Canadian prairie, General Motors donated its plant to the gov't and the war effort. The gov't named the facility "Regina Industries" and retooled the factory for munitions production.

 

i still viewed Canada as a Commonwealth country and part of the British "We" during WW2... Canada gave a Lion's Share of men, as well as production.

 

My dad was a welder in the Houston shipyard. In 44 the govt sent him to Tennessee to work at Oak Ridge. He was one of a handful of welders that could certify on stainless pipe. He didn't know why or what they were building, just that it would help win the war. He had already lost one brother in Europe. He was a B17 flight officer, was shot down in the first bomb raid the 100th Bomber Group flew.

 

What's a Canada?........................Don't worry we get the same, 'Australia was in WWII!'..................
Yeah, we only entered it in 1939! And fought in all THREE theaters of that war!



Doc.

 

thought of building a lakester from one of these tinfishes, but i think it's a bit to heavy.... and also hard to find..

Carsten

 

my grand father worked in the shipyards of nor cal

 

This was and still is the "BEST ADD for OLDSMOBILES" Ever!

 

Anything with the Widow on it is bad ass!! I love those things, the baddest twin of WWII!

Doc.

 

Don, don't worry because we no longer need all the war stuff. All we need are a hand full of nukes. And we have hundreds.

 

The amount of equipment built by the US during WW2 staggers the mind.GM for example built 800,000 heavy trucks and large vehicles .After the D day invasion the allied troops advancing towards Germany were supplied by trucks.It was literary a bumper to bumper line of GMC trucks 300 miles long than rolled 24/7. At this same time the air war against the Nazis had increased to 700-1000 plane raids of 4 engine bombers escorted by 2000 fighters.That's why it was called the "aluminum overcast". That's 6000 engines burning an average of 60 gallons of gas per hour each.And about a gallon per hour of motor oil .And the thousands of ships built,the massive naval battles.Add to that the other Allied countries production and of course the Axis massive war machine.Much of this machinery was destroyed in combat.........
I parked my O/T 47 Jeep,a direct descendant of the WW2 Jeep, next to a Toyota and you can almost feel the Jeep hiss at the Japanese car...

 

Yes, the logistics of war are staggering. It was all done with copper wire, typewriters, carbon paper and slide rules. It boggles the mind.

But on to who did what to win the war. Crosley, who had built a factory in Richmond, IN in 1939 to produce cars, converted production to gun turrets. I think Dad said they were upper turrets and sent to Detroit and installed in B24's. Dad was a machine repairman, or as I think of it, an industrial mechanic.

Bill

 

If you like the ad and the airplane you'll love the RESTORATION story. Bob http://www.maam.org/p61.html

 

Combat Jeep needs a driveline repair? No jacks? no problem

 

A lot of US made equipment was sold to our allies.This stylized Willys ad is for the Soviet Union.it's a thumbs up for victory

 

My Dad (born 1912) worked as a marine engineer moving oil on ships during WWII.

Bob

 

Very interesting! Tell me more!