[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Other abbreviations were:
SKD = SEMI KNOCKED DOWN
MKD = MOSTLY KNOCKED DOWN
SUP = SINGLE UNIT PACK
TUP = TWIN UNIT PACK

SUP became a general description for complete export vehicles after the war. The first reference to MKD I have come across was in 1927 when the then Prince of Wales, later Edward V111 and Duke of Windsor, visited Vauxhall's Luton works. The first reference to TUPs I came across was in 1941 when a truck assembly operation was set up in Rangoon, Burma by General Motors Overseas Operations. I stand to be corrected but I have always thought that SKD packs were those that followed the initial CKD deliveries that were abandoned because it was found in 1940 that shipping crates of parts seperately was a nightmare when they arrived independently at the assembly plants. I have the official info on this from the Canadian Archives. That said it is clear that there were indeed later CKD deliveries to SA, NZ, Australia, India, which fits in with what Hanno just said. These countries had local glass, timber, metal facilities. Tyres as well?