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Originally Posted by Tom Millward
Does anyone know if it's possible to find the original WD Census number for a Sexton. The hull number is 1164 and is a Sexton Mk2 from 1944. I have seen a table of WD numbers for each contract, but I have been told that the WD numbers weren't applied sequentially by hull number but rather adhoc as the vehicles were delivered.
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Hello Tom, the latter part is not correct for vehicles built under a contract for the British Ministry of Supply and Canadian DND (
read more here). The Shop numbers on Ram, Grizzly and Sexton were all directly related to the census numbers.
I have combined the various bits of information on here (see the link above), my
Sherman Register webpage plus a list of modifications listed in
Data book - Tank type vehicles of Canadian manufacture into one table:
From this I deduce Shop No. 1164 is Sexton II delivered under S/M 1356 with census number
S 234665.