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Hi everyone
I have just found an interesting pamphlette, as follows:
Field Artillery School, Department of Motors, Lesson Plan, Field Expedients,
Feb 45
It references: FM 25-10, Motor Transport
and: FM 21-105, Engineer Soldiers Handbook.
The objective is to demonstrate some of the expedients which maybe used to
facilitate motor movement inthe field.
The pamphlette covers a variety of different vehicles and has a strange
photo of the front of a Jeep. This Jeep (a GPW) has a rope wrapped around a
piece of wood fixed between the front chassis rails, on side of the piece of
wood is secured with a metal strap, the other is secured with a leather
strap. The leather strap has a buckled to allow the end to be released from
the chassis rail on the driver side. The next page of the pamphlette shows a
cross sectional drawing of this apparatus. The pamphlette describes this
apparatus as a TOW ROPE CARRIER.
To me this apparatus seems to be a momumental waste of time and effort - can
anyone clarify WHY it should be necessary to go to such trouble to carry a
Jeep Tow Rope... does the wooden bar have some other purpose more than just
something to wrap the rope around ? Was this ever used in the field - I have
never seen such photo before - or is it purely a silly idea dreampt up at a
training camp that had absolutely no value in the field?
Any thoughts ?
Many thanks
Tim
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