1915 FWD Model B
1915 FWD Model B in Flowers of London, Short Movie, 1924
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2016-01-30 21:19 |
FWD possibly...![[Image: fwdquery.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/fwdquery.jpg) ![[Image: fwd.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/fwd.jpg) Four wheels the same size and single throughout, proportions of radiator to chassis about right and front dashpanel size above radiator correct. Front differential seen and agrees with this http://ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p971350189/h1e547864#h1e547864 -- Last edit: 2016-01-30 21:21:59 |
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◊ 2016-01-30 21:31 |
Was there a UK FWD as well as a US one?? Our collection is an interesting mix - new stuff very US, but the older stuff seems to overlap origins. |
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◊ 2016-01-31 12:07 |
1915 FWD was American (Wisconsin I think) shipped to Europe for WWI work in France. It was then imported after the war in some numbers for commercial use, of course some ex-military examples were probably put to peace-time transport work. During the war more than 16,000 F.W.D. lorries were delivered to the Allied Governments. From what I found in the CM Archive - from memory... It was also intended in 1919-1920 I think to build them in the UK from imported parts and some UK parts. Initially a UK company with no connection to the US manufacturer bought all excess wartime vehicles for refurbishment and rebuilding after parts ran-out it was expected that they would continue production with parts shipped from the US and the UK. The operation was run by the ex-vice president and general manager of the FWD. Auto Co. of Kitchener, Canada. At about the same time a British FWD was being proposed for manufacture from all UK parts and completely different design. I can find no evidence the British FWD made it to production, but its likely some 1920s FWD (US design) were assembled in the UK. ![[Image: rebuiltfwd.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/rebuiltfwd.jpg) Steel wheels (disc type not spoked) were common on (later?) military versions but spoked wheels seem common on commercial trucks. Built as 1½-Ton, 3-Ton and 4-Ton trucks. -- Last edit: 2016-01-31 12:12:52 |
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◊ 2016-01-31 12:40 |
Further reading on the subject above shows that UK manufacture of the US FWD lorries started in the wartime years. Because of enemy action supplies from the US and Canada could not be relied on, therefore a UK factory set up by the British War Department started production. They copied and changed or substituted where necessary parts in the UK, based on the US design to maintain supplies of wartime military lorries. Presumably they had the support from the US manufacturer during this process of British production. -- Last edit: 2016-01-31 12:40:43 |
