Rear wood, hand bilge pump, S on Cowl

[Carl Watt]

Gentlemen:

1. We have two hand bilge pumps, are they both authentic?

2. I post a photo of the S painted on the driver's side cowl of GPA 11499 in Moscow

3. I post a photo of the rear "wood" in GPA 11499. It is some kind of fiber board. When did it change from plywood to fiberboard?


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e13/GPA4METOO/smallpumps.jpg

[fordgpa]

Hi Carl,
About your questions .
The hand pump with the metal T bar is the one you need .
It should have Central on it .
The other one is a big maybe but never seen it on a war picture.

The S never seen this before maybe sovjet marking ?

The fibrewood [ oil injected] things in the back are the only ones I know of .
I have never seen them made off plywood.
There are plywood or wood things on the rear end
They are at the rear and and screwed at the bottom profile.

Peter

[Mithril]

The "S" marking (factory in blue) is US WWII original. It is there to show this vehicule has been radio noises supressed.

The "D" handle bilge pump is coming from a Weasel in my opinion.

[bobassel]

Carl
On ww2 pictures you see the T bar handle pump
but in my opinion there were several pumps in use
if nessesary.
The Waterweasel M29C uses the folowing model which was
direct inserted in the water instead of GPA which uses 2 hoses.

Here a picture from a GPA with the " S " on the cowl.
In my opinion only used on the later GPA models.

I have on my GPA the same fiberwood material.

Greetings Bob

[leo verhagen]

Hello Bob,

This is a photo of GPA 2133 (USA Reg. Nr. 704237) that allready has a S on the cowl, so not only on late GPA's there was an S.