WWII CCKW Assembly Line (France)

[spicergear]

That's pretty neat! 50 a day is something!!!

 

[indy4x4fab]

Thanks for posting the video.

 

[highfavor1004]

wow, Thank you for sharing

 

[highfavor1004]

i have been looking for a closed cab CCKW in FL. for some time wish i had one of those.

 

[11Echo]

Yessir. Going to get it Sunday if I can convince the wife that it won't be anything like the last 5 or so recoveries.

Great to hear you arrived home safely this evening with your new truck!

 

[Doubled]

That is really cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Monkeyboyarmy]

Great to hear you arrived home safely this evening with your new truck!

Yep. Safe. But not without running up the tab with the wife. All backroads,25 up the hills and 45 on the flats.We had to stop one time to add water (across from Ravenna Arsenal.....should have stopped 2 miles back and got a picture with the gate guard cobras,duster,m818 but it ran like a clock. Needs lotsa tlc.

 

[hwcurtice]

And I thought they transported them overseas already assembled.

So I learned something new today.

Great video.

 

[Old Duece]

WOW 50 a day with hand tools very impressive operation with nothing to work with , my hat is off to those men!

 

[paulfarber]

nice video ,at the begining of the war they were crated so they could stack more of them on ships,as more ships were produced they stopped crating them.

You have this backwards. Initially they were sent to the UK and France assembled as part of Lend lease (well, the very early ACKWs). Then single unit packs (one truck in two crates, then TUP's (two trucks in three crates).

Single units include 1 cab/chassis crate and a cargo box crate.

Two unit packs put two frames in one crate, the cabs in another crate, and the cargo beds in the third.

If you google 'wwii little detroits' it will show you the very large assembly depots that were dedicated to uncrating jeeps/cckws.

Other than aircraft that were flown to Europe, just about everything had to be preserved (pickled) for the 3 week trip across the pond... and that require some sort of clean up/assembly upon arrival.

If you watch the movie, in the first minute it shows a local removing the preservative from a transmission.

The narrative is *mostly* correct, but there are some errors... but mad props for the guy that put the video online.

 

[9P133]

The French called the ones with the Wrecker Set No 7 a Lot 7 - please don't ask me why, I'm not into french military terms on this.

IIRC, the export French CCKW's were known as "Lot 7's"

 

[CycleJay]

Hi guys,

Thank you for sharing and thank you to all of you for your service to our country,
it is greatly appreciated, Welcome home.

Amazing video, really. I just wish the auto companies would dump the robots,
and hire people to assemble vehicles again, then more people would be working.

Anyway, that is my $0.02 cents...

 

[nattieleather]

They got to be doing 50 vehicles a day because it became habbit or old hat. They just got into thr rythym and cranked them out. Became old hat so to speak.

 

[maddawg308]

That is an awesome video! Wish we had work ethic today like those guys did back then....

 

[quickfarms]

You can drop off a CCKW in a crate to my place

 

[papabear]

You can drop off a CCKW in a crate to my place

Jeeps in a crate are 50 bucks...CCKW's are 250

 

[DieselBob]

Jeeps in a crate are 50 bucks...CCKW's are 250

I'll take 2 jeeps and 2 CCKW.