A member of a Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol poses with a Vickers K machine gun on a Chevrolet 30-cwt truck, May 1942. Supplementing their army-supplied weapons, the LRDG was equipped with surplus Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft guns, which were acquired for …

2022年2月5日 · The LRDG truck was the result of a culmination of almost fourteen years of desert exploration before World War II. Specially fitted tires, a water condenser for the radiator, sand …

The "Chevy 30 CWT" as known universally is instantaneously identified to the LRDG truck, the heavy element of a pair that formed the core of the motorized Long Range Desert Patrol, with …

Medical Supply Truck (various patrol trucks) - A medical orderly accompanied all LRDG patrols to look after wounded units in the field. One of each patrols' vehicles was equipped to carry medical supplies (which required a cooled compartment to carry medicines); these vehicles usually carried a stretcher on the side of the body.

This book explains the detail of all the vehicles of the LRDG, as well as their modifications, driving techniques, and special kit for surviving behind enemy lines in one of the most hostile environments on earth.

2022年12月2日 · Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) truck negotiating the slope of a sand dune during a patrol, March 1941. (Photo Credit: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Captain G. Keating / Imperial War Museums / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The unit would rely heavily on various trucks – Jeeps, Chevrolets and Fords – to travel through the desert.

2019年10月23日 · The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), which might be considered to be the first modern Special Forces unit, chose to operate modified Chevrolet civilian trucks, but it was the stripped-down Jeeps of the SAS that established the norm for this type of operation.

2016年5月25日 · By March 1942, the Fords were replaced by 200 purpose built Canadian Chevrolet 1533×2 trucks – those we consider the typical LRDG trucks today. When the LRDG …

2022年2月5日 · These 6 ton 6x6 trucks were standard cargo trucks used by Commonwealth forces at the beginning of hostilities. The F8 Ford was seen as a possible replacement for the 1133x3 15 CWT Chevrolets. It came on the scene around the same time that the Jeep became available. At least one of them was used on a patrol by the Kiwis.

From the first Chevy trucks borrowed from the Egyptian Army to the comparatively late addition of Willy's Jeeps, the Long Range Desert Group selected their vehicles with two primary goals in mind: the ability to quickly cross desert terrain and the ability to carry enough supplies for prolonged desert campaigns without the need for refuelling.