1 Those Ambulance Chevs were assembled in the GM Nordoska Plant in Stockholm!
2. Herewith military Chevs...1940 WA Panel Vans..note number of grille bars! Yes I did count them! I think that the 1-ton and up cab had a higher hood line than the 1/2 to 3/4 ton but a parts list will confirm. It's still less in '40 than '39 in either case.
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3. The 1939 and 1940 GMCs had similar diferences to each other as per Chev but there were less and thicker bars than Chevs. Now, what was the case with Maple Leaf?? That's for the future. Maple Leafs should have 'Maple Leaf' on the hood side where 'General Motors Truck' is located on GMCs BUT we know that Canadian military MLs and GMCs seem to have had this deleted as already discussed in another thread, and seems to have been deleted from some military GMCs out of Pontiac, Michigan. I guess that as with paint instead of chrome the military trucks had 'delete' options to save cents on the final f.o.b. tag! Maple Leaf trucks from the Chevrolet Heavy Duty whch was unique to Canada as clones of GMCs with Chevrolet engines, had a Maple leaf radiator badge from July 1930 onwards [Chev HD was badged 'Maple Leaf Truck' only from 1932] and I would be interested to be disproven that the military 1939-42 Model MLs still retained the same leaf motif though used the basic GMC grille. After all they were Canadian GMCs with Chevrolet, or Chevrolet-based engines.
4. We have a winner x 2! C30, and post-war rebuild....see the forthcoming book for more of these tippers including twin rear wheel conversions.
Let's see if we can dig up a suitable prize or two. Names have been noted!!