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Posted by Gordon [62.249.206.130] on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 10:06:26 :
In Reply to: There are more WC panels... posted by Eric B. [99.100.189.137] on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 15:11:20 :
Lets see now.
The WC front axle housing is stronger than the VC one, in fact many VCs have WC front axle housings with VC hubs.
The VC wheel was OK, but the small bolt circle and the disk construction means no offset so you can't dual them.
VC front axle was on open 'C' hangers, like an MB / GPW, weaker than WC twin-plate type.
VC rear axle had the wheel running on the axle shaft itself, so broken axle shaft = wheel falls off - fixed on the WC
VC transmission had no provision for PTO, so no winch, though you could swap a VC top plate onto a WC transmission to get a PTO.
VC transmission had clunky lockout stopping you from 1st and reverse unless you engaged the front axle, and the front axle engage lever was on the 'wrong' side so clunky linkage too.
Despite that I like VC trucks, they just look so much better than the half to WC to my eyes.
Right, half ton WC panels. The confusion stems from the fact that the majority of WC half ton panels were made as WC42 Radio Panel trucks and mostly went to the British - only a few survivors.
The rest of the WC half ton panels were WC11 trucks, which were numerically much rarer originally, but a dozen or so survive.
Enough
Gordon