Re: [MV] *** Take you HMV out today ***

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 08:12:59 PDT


At 8:14 AM -0700 6/7/04, chance wolf wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [MV] *** Take you HMV out today ***
>
>
>At 1:38 PM +0100 6/7/04, noel shelley wrote:
>>1 cwt = 112 lb
>> 20 cwt = 1 Ton
>>800 cwt = 40 Tons = 89600 lb Noel
>
>> That's a Big CMP! I thought the C-60X was large too!
>
>It's a neat truck, but it's actually an F8 8 cwt. It's so damn tiny you
>don't so much drive it as wear it, and if you're over the typical 5'3" WWII
>type and have anything over an 8 shoe size, your feet hit each other while
>trying to operate the pedals. It's really...different. Yes. That's the
>word.

Is it a CMP or a British pattern? I've crawled around in a friend's
C15 GS and C8 HUP CMPs as well as a C15TA ( I slept in that one).

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