Mystery Fords
 

Can anyone id the Ford CMP with #12 Cab and Lindsay type house body please? Which bodyb style and chassis type? Also is that a F8 Personnel carrier?

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/.../personnel.jpg

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...alk/ford12.jpg

could the cab 12 be an F60H with a MGO stores or workshop body on it?

just my 2 cents worth:)

Not an F8
 

Looks more like a C8A to me. What makes you think it's a Ford, David?

I think Cliff's right with the F60H, but I can't pick the body type. With the 16" wheels it might be one of the early ones with a GM front axle.

Small Book
 

The photos will I hope be in a small book on the second Canadian Mechanization Depot in Slough. The photo is a mystery to me..the truck carries a 'CMD' assembly number indicating that it had not been allocated a Census Number and may have been newly-assembled. It has a # 12 Cab and Lindsay house type body I thought BUT Canadian production ended in August 1941. Next to the F60H is a Ford Jeep to Canadian order, crated up for shipment with 'USPB'. Then there is what appears to be a C8A HUP, and yet it appears that these were assembled int he UK from spring 1942 onwards. Does anyone know when the first Canadian Jeeps were shipped overseas? I reckon the photo was taken in 1942 but the F60H which was one of about 200 shipped to the UK by August '41 looks anachronistic.

Small Book
 

May I thank publicly Clive for the copies of the exytracts of 1 and 2 (Overseas) Detachment war diaries.