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Hello I have a 1924 utility truck with a wooden cab and body.Can
enyone tell me the type of wood this is made from?
Cheers

The 24 commerical chassis would have been exported to UK without a body; it would have had the chassis complete up to the instrument panel. Wooden bodies would have been made of "Hardwoods" that were available to the body maker. Other than oak/ash/chestnut I don't know what other wood species were available in UK. Were there any body builder plates on what is left of your truck?

This utility truck was imported from america so do you know what type of wood would of been used?
Many thanks
Paul

Probably oak.

pwj even American built trucks used outside supplied bodies. They used just about any kind of wood that was available to their local area. Oak and White Ash usually for structural parts (door post and roof ribs) but all kinds of other hard woods were also used such as Maple, Chestnut, Hickory. Elm. Even Birch and White pine especially in boards that were painted. Just about all the woods that were used in horse drawn carriages were used in early car/truck bodies.

Here is some of the story of the British assembled Chevrolet trucks:

http://media.gm.com/gb/chevrolet/en/company/c_history/index.html

As you will read they were not CKD, but partly assembled in Canada before coming to Hendon. You can be pretty sure the wood work was done in UK by local body makers.

Here are details about the IDs from 1924-28:

clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/chevytalk/GMhistory/1924-28.pdf

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Thanks for all your help.
And thanks for the web site it was very interesting.