Wing mounted Airborne BATTERY boxes for no.19 radio Set

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Wing mounted Airborne BATTERY boxes for no.19 radio Set

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Hi there. My name is Tony. I have a 1944 Wilys MB jeep undergoing restoration. I am truly hoping someone somewhere has some help or advice on making a couple of wing mounted battery boxes.

I have searched long and hard and found no luck in tracking down the dimensions of these little gems. Does anybody have any idea's ? Or do you own any that I can reference the dimensions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Many Thanks for your time

Tony
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Tony,

You mention "wing" mounted battery boxes. Sounds like you are from Great Britain. I have been away from the WWII jeeps for many years but I don't recall a fender mounted battery boxes for US MB's with radios. They had a PTO driven 12 volt generator setup for that and the 12 volt battery mounted inside the jeep on the floor.

I am sure you are speaking of signal equipped English Army jeeps during WWII such as this airborne unit:

http://horsa.bizland.com/OBLI/JeepSignals.htm

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Army Radios.com doesn't seem to mention them and the photo above is of the only jeep I see on any web sites with them.
http://armyradio.com/
Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100

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