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Old 24-11-12, 02:30
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Anyway, in my search for parts, I visited a nearby yard of old deuces and ran into a couple of unique ones, which leads to a couple questions.

First, there is one of the line deuces in that yard. Was the Deuce line truck purely a Canadian thing, or were they patterned after a US truck? Dash shows it as a M135 which was kind of interesting: I thought they would have used a M133 (cab and chassis only) for these conversion. On the flip side, we have a deuce with winch here at the Shilo museum which has the data plate of M133, although it is completed as a M135.

Secondly, I found one cab had the data plate of the XM222 water truck. Serial number was somewhere around 0015, with a build date of 1952, and the crossed cannon ordnance corps inspectors mark stamped on the data plate. Obviously an early American made truck, but interestingly had a Canadian CFR number on the dash, with a 1954 model year. Did Canada build any of the M222 water trucks, or were they all from the US? Has anyone else noted US built GMCs in Canadian service?
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