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K-31 truck

5- to 6-ton 4x4 Van

Maximum speed 45 mph (72 km/h)

The K-31 truck, a US Signal Corps designation for an Autocar U8144 truck with York-Hoover van body, was used as the power truck for the SCR-270, an early warning radar of World War II. The power it delivered to the radar came from a PE-74 generator.^[1] 2) 3) 4) Similar vehicles were the K-30 and K-62 or K-62-A, all three operating trucks for the SCR-270. K-31 differed in cubic feet and overall height from K-30 and K-62.^[1] The K-62 AND K-62A were the successors of both the K-30 and K-31. Note the difference in form of the wheel arch of the van body between the depicted vehicles that shows that there must have been successive models from York-Hoover. The third image in the gallery shows that the two panels at each side were folded up when the vehicles where operated, while the panels at the back where two halves that were folded up and down respectively.

Gallery

SCR-270-packed-300
Right side K-30 Operating truck, part of SCR-270
Operating truck K-30 and power truck K-31 as part of SCR-270

Notes

^ ^a ^b "TM-9-2800-1 Military Vehicles". US Dept. of the Army. 27 October 1947. p. 304. Retrieved 1 January 2015.

2)FM 11-25
3)TM 11-1410
4)TM 11-1540

References

TM 9-817
TM 9-1817
ORD 7 SNL G-511, 1949
ORD 7 SNL G-511, 1952
ORD 8 SNL G-511, 1952
ORD 9 SNL G-511, 1945
FM 11–25
TM 11-1510
TM 11-1410
TM 9-2800, 1943
Crismon, Fred W (2001). US Military Wheeled Vehicles (3 ed.). Victory WWII Pub. p. 284. ISBN 0-970056-71-0.
Doyle, David (2003). Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Krause Publications. pp. 171–173). ISBN 0-87349-508-X.
"TM-9-2800-1 Military Vehicles". US Dept. of the Army. 27 October 1947. p. 304. Retrieved 1 January 2015.