From: Joe Shannon (fordpart@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 08:35:31 PDT
I have not checked this out but I have been told several times by people who
should know that you can put a CCKW transfer case in an M-211 to gain a low
range if you convert it to another type engine and transmission.
Joe Foley wrote:
> > Maybe they only commenced it in 1938?
> >
> > Also the ACKW was a civilian model 6*6 built by GM
> > from 1938??
> > I am not sure here...I think that the GMC 6*6
> > (ACKWX, CCKW etc)
> > were based on the civvy models.
> >
> > Can anyone state what the exact chronology is?
> ++++++++
> Something tells me the history of the 6 X 6 should be
> tied in with the White Scout Car and the half tracks.
> I'm thinking that the front drive axle was developed
> for them and later adapted to the cargo trucks.
>
> Isn't the Scout Car early/mid of '30's design?
>
> The three shaft transfer case sounds like GMC to me,
> the M-135/211 has that style.
>
> Joe
>
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