1938 Morris-Commercial CD Zwicky Flight Refueller - Replica

1938 Morris-Commercial CD in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Movie, 1981

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin:

1938 Morris-Commercial CD Zwicky Flight Refueller - Replica

01:17:26 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
antp ◊ 2007-01-01 23:26	Identified as Crossley by 2491tj on /vehicle_5031-Horch-830-B.html
2491tj ◊ 2007-01-17 00:48	Further info...known as a Zwicky Flight refueller from 1938..this one is on a Morris Commercial CD chassis,not Crossley as previously ststed..entered service with the RAF in 1937 as their new 350 gallon flight refueller and played a very important but overlooked role in 1940. Built by Zwicky also on Crossley and Albion chassis ,the design featured a tripple boom arrangement so three aircraft could be refuelled at the same time.
Trainboy12 ◊ 2009-12-21 15:59	They must have been retarded to destroy a classic truck like this.
racersg ◊ 2012-03-16 02:06	Isn't Morris-Commercial a British company? seems kinda ironic that Nazis are using it.
racersg ◊ 2012-06-21 00:50	Trainboy12 wrote They must have been retarded to destroy a classic truck like this. It could've been a MOC, like that "Mercedes" truck that was really a CCKW.
maxman ◊ 2013-05-09 07:56	No, it's quite clearly a Morris.
Lateef ◊ 2013-06-04 18:04
owlman ◊ 2013-06-04 18:33	I'm impressed by your multiple-thumbnail-upload-and-comment-speed.
Lateef ◊ 2013-06-04 18:47	Thanks actually, it's a bit less impressive than it seems. I upload thumbnails one by one, put them in a text document, and then copy and paste onto the pages they belong (the last part is the speedy one, obviously)
Nightrider ◊ 2013-06-04 18:54	That's why he's an admin.
owlman ◊ 2013-06-04 19:43	Lateef wrote Thanks actually, it's a bit less impressive than it seems. I upload thumbnails one by one, put them in a text document, and then copy and paste onto the pages they belong (the last part is the speedy one, obviously) Oh... that's a lot less impressive
rjluna2 ◊ 2013-06-04 20:06	I hope you are not running out of pics.imcdb.org disk space, Aren't you?
antp ◊ 2013-06-05 17:39	Lateef wants to get reach again the level of Jale & Sandie after he lost his 2nd place: Link to "forum.imcdb.org" (I should maybe put a quota on that to prevent these huge amounts of images not always useful ) (edit: and I think that in the meantime he went back at the 2nd place ) Not yet a space problem, but as I was not expecting a so big increase of images posted (compared to when we used Imageshack), there may be some day performance issues. -- Last edit: 2013-06-05 17:45:01
Lateef ◊ 2013-06-05 18:08	antp wrote Lateef wants to get reach again the level of Jale & Sandie after he lost his 2nd place: Ha, 2nd place? You mean first loser. Truth to be told, I just happen to like having lots of thumbnails. That goes for famous and seldomly-documented vehicles such as the one above. Complaining about this is like ... I don't know, complaining about unknown over Unknown. I don't see the harm of having a sufficient amount of thumbnails, of which this is an example of. The previous amount of thumbnails was rather lacklustre, IMHO. Not one shot of the truck blowing up. And don't get me started on the MB L701. I absolutely felt like something had to be done for these well-known film vehicles. -- Last edit: 2013-06-05 18:12:55
antp ◊ 2013-06-05 18:15	Indeed for this kind of vehicle/role it is not much a problem. It is even good to have many pics. I rather complain when four pics are used for a blurry passing vehicle -- Last edit: 2013-06-05 18:16:05
owlman ◊ 2013-06-07 16:44	It's probably a very small portion, but we could delete IMPDb pics once the corresponding page on impdb.org is created.
rattle on ◊ 2013-07-08 16:38	Not sure what this is but that is not the Zwicky design of refueller body fitted to the Morris CD used by the RAF,allso strangely for a tanker there is no fire wall between the cab and the refuelling body has fitted to RAF CD refuellers
LencoBearcatGuy ◊ 2014-07-27 23:25	This type of truck is very rare. I wonder where this particular truck is?
jcb ◊ 2014-07-28 07:44	This truck is a 'bitsa' or a mock up . Military Morris Commercials were 6x4. In main pic this clearly has an undriven rear axle that looks likes a front axle grafted on the back . Wheels are all wrong too. Bodywork is clearly a plywood pastiche. -- Last edit: 2014-07-28 09:26:59
LencoBearcatGuy ◊ 2014-07-28 07:54	Are you saying that it could be a Made for Movie?
jcb ◊ 2014-07-28 09:28	Almost certain , Maybe the radiator is Morris Without doubt that is a front axle grafted on back, so it is not a CD . /vehicle_647814-Morris-Commercial-CD-1936.html -- Last edit: 2014-07-28 09:38:19
LencoBearcatGuy ◊ 2014-08-04 00:47	Well then, call it a Made for Movie.