DUWKS APPEAR
NEW ALLIED CRAFT AMPHIBIOUS TRANSPORTS I British Official Wireless.) '<9 a.m.) RUGBY, July 18. The Sicilian landing marked the first operational appearance of “dawks,” and much of the credit, for the clockwork regularity and soeed with which the vast traffic was handled belonged to them, 1 for they carried the major part of the munilions and men. They justified to the full all the slight hopes placed in them. Dinvks —clucks to the army and navy —received their name from the factory serial letters, D for a boat, U for a lorry body, and KW for a lorry chassis. They are lifeboats cum motor lorries. At sea they look like a cross between a motor launch and a large lorry. On land they are six-wheeled 2J-tnn lorries. The power unit is a motor protected from water, which operates a propeller in the water and wheels on land, the change being made with a simple lever. The body is boat-shaped. The duwks are carried on ships as ordinary deck cargo', and are lowered over • hoard into the sea by derrick or from boat da .fits. They go ashore like a launch aid on reaching the beach continue as a lorry
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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