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Hi

Im new to this forum but do we have a passion for old trucks, my family own a 1926 Chev truck (i have photos but dont know how to upload them)

heres a link to the ones i have on facebook http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150248662560157.471481.816175156&type=1

Has anyone got any information any at all would be so awesome i wont to know as much as i can about this old girl :) We still drive this around pretty often :)

Your pictures are not available.

If it's a 1/2 tonner chassis then it's a Superior K Series V or Superior V Series V [Superior Series V] Light Delivery. If it's a heavier chassis then it's a Utility Express Series X, although the build plate may quote the Car No. as Superior X Series X.
That said, the selling seasons ran August 1st each year at the time to July 31st. The '1927 Selling Season' trucks assembled after August 1st 1926, so we call them now the 'Late V' or 'Late X'.

Some owners have found that their 1925 Superior K Series K Light Deliveries and U.E. Series R 1 ton chassis were titled as '1926' models but were in fact post-August 1st 1925 so '1926 Selling Season' or 'Late K' with the light bar in front of the radiator.

Plant codes before the model designation:

1 FLINT, MICHIGAN
2 TARRYTOWN
3 ST LOUIS, MISSOURI
5 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
6 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
8 ATLANTA, GEORGIA [APRIL 1928 ON]
9 NORWOOD, OHIO
12 BUFFALO, NEW YORK
21 JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
22 TARRYTOWN CHASSIS/COWL

Lummy,

I suggest you post some pictures outside of Facebook. I suspect a lot of folks on this site do not have Facebook accounts. Your's truly included.

Thanks, Dean

+ 1 and never will

how do i upload photos?

or i can easily email the photos if you leave me a email address

Engine no: R2459113
Chassis: XHX188

You can post pictures on this site under VCCA's Member's Photos if you are a member of the VCCA and put your member number in your profile. After your number is in your profile, the VCCA Pixy will sprinkle your profile with magic VCCA fairy dust and you'll get extra wonderful privileges. ;-)

You'll more than get your money's worth by joining this fine club.

Cheers, Dean

Wow! XH = General Motors New Zealand Ltd, Petone, which opened-up 30th August 1926 but fully functional by October 1926 so that's an early assembly job [from CKD kits from Chevrolet Bloomfield, New Jersey Boxing Plant].

X = Utility Express Series X

188 = sequential production number

The engine is a right-hand drive unit meant for a car or light delivery and not a truck chassis which would be prefixed 'RT'. This mean a higher Compression Ratio and may have been selected to cope with the hills, etc. It is not unknown for car engines to be used in trucks at the time. These shipments were of course as components and not complete vehicles broken-down.

If that had been a British-assembled truck then from the Engine Number I would guesstimate it as being assembled in September 1926. This seems to all fit in with it being a very early job off the line.

RHD truck engines were all prefixed TR,not RT.Well at least all the ones in Australia were.

Ignoring the 1922-on 'CPXR' rhd Canadian engines and 'SM' 1924 units, also used in trucks, 'R' was the rhd prefix in US cars/Light Delivery and Utility Express chassis.

Then:
1925: R for car and L.D. and RT for U.E. trucks
1926: R and RT
1927: R and RT and then there was a change at about Engine #TR3800000, for 1928 possibly because of a change in heads on tne trucks to TR
1928: R and X/XR which was introduced to signify new low-compression engines for the L.D. chassis with different pistons, and TR
1929: R and RT again to signify 6-cylinder engines
1930-1934: R/MR for Standard and RT
1935: R/MR and TR again until 1945 at least

HI Guys

Oracle that is some awesome info thanks heaps.

I have talked to my Dad and he was telling me that it was brought into NZ by a family in Hunterville to be used to cart Coal off the trains so the high compression ratio i suspect was choosen for that paritcular reason.

Cheers

I know of at least one British-assembled 1926 car that had a truck engine installed! I suspect that they fitted whatever they had to hand on occasions and changed the pistons from cast iron to alloy. What we didn't have outside the US was Ethyl gas.

is there anyway of knowing how many of these were brought into the country and assemble in the Petone plant

and how many CC is the engine?

21.7 H.P. 94 x 102 m.m. bore and stroke [3 11/16 x 4 in.), 2,801 c.c.
I am sorry but I don't seem to have any figures...prior to the local assmbly they imported complete vehicles from Tarrytown, NY plant.