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Cranes and excavators The following two pics refer to GMC towing trucks the Boogaard firm in Beverwijk (The Netherlands). This picture nicely shows the difference between the original closed cab (left) and the post-war Dutch cab (right) (courtesy of Bal Molenaar)
The Boekestijn firm
from Maasland (The Netherlands, www.boekestijnbv.nl) has used 6 GMC's The first
pictures shows one from the mid 50s. Don't let the Studebaker US6 cab fool you:
the remainder of the truck is still a GMC CCKW indeed! The second two pictures
refer to their third GMC, the last two to their fourth GMC. Fortunately, that
one still exists, as shown in the folder
´Not too late´
on this website (courtesy of L. Boekestijn).
Two pictures of a yard crane (probably Jonk Bros from Purmerend) and
a peculiar construction crane of Oomen firm
(Venlo) (kindly lend to me from the extensive picture collection of
Peter de
Groot). The next four pictures show the GMC breakdown truck
of Poort from Hoogkerk. Note the inflatable boat on top of the roof! (courtesy
of Rob van der Laan)
GMC Holmes breakdown truck trying to re-erect a
collapsed milk tanker (courtesy of Klaas Klomp and
www.zijpermuseum.nl/niestadt/bbank.html ) Also derived from the
www.zijpermuseum.nl/niestadt/bbank.html photographic archives: another
tanker truck in GMC owned by Haulo recovery services (courtesy of
Klaas Klomp)
The Kwinten firm from Westerhoven, The
Netherlands, also used GMC's as carriers for their dragline (in this case
probably a Pasal) (courtesy of Albert Kwinten).
Fuchs 300 dragline, driven by Egbert Ottens from Emmer-Compascuum, mounted on GMC (courtsy
of
Simon Ottens)
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Poclain excavator type TU mounted on GMC (courtesy of Eric Affeld, France) The following eight pictures show what it looked like (courtesy Eric Affeld, France)
The Dutch firm Nooteboom (nowadays only known for their low bed trailers) also
used GMC's in the 50's as a The Groothuijse firm from Beek-Ubbergen initially
used army surplus trucks among which GMC's. Next to several
In the 50s and 60s there was a quite extensive dragline industry in The
Netherlands, as memorized by Ad Gevers
Home made hydraulic excavators, possibly belonging to the Brenk firm from
Geldermalsen: apparently no
The Smink firm from Hoogland used this GMC as a carrier for a dragline (probably
a Pasal)
The M.F. Bos from Zeist, The Netherlands, with their GMC mounted Pasal dragline
in the province of Zeeland Right after WW2 Rotterdam Council built a GMC wrecker ('number 3') to remove broken-down vehicles from the Maastunnel. Note the differences between the core version and the pimped final version: less open fenders, head lights built-in, bent wind screen. The crane on the front could lift 2 tons, the one in the back 5 to (topped position) 7.5 tons. Both cranes were built from scrap material left in the bombed Rotterdam harbor (courtesy Leo Stolk).
GMC carrier with Fuchs dragline owned by, probably, Dijkhoff (courtesy of Peter
Dunki Jacobs)
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