Cliff/Hanno:
I think Cliff you are getting a real good handle on the smaller Chevs and picked up a couple of new ones. I had not been looking so much for those as for the 30CWT, I think, and the 3 tonners.
For whatever it is worth, I have put the word out on Swedish, German, Russian and Australian sites I belong to to see if we can flush out someone who either has direct input to our research here or can put us on to someone else who has such info.
I wasted another hour on the Google search engine trying every combination I could think of and only came up with Unit histories, Regimental histories etc. and essentially nothing on GM India or Ford India that was worth squat.
Sadly, 30 years ago I made some excellent contacts in India mainly regarding ordinary American cars sold there and got some interesting stuff. That was when Volvo trucks was trying to sell trucks to the Indian Army and we also were negotiating with the TATA group for license production. I remember we sold a few specialist trucks there but TATA preferred to maintain their licensing agreement with Daimler Benz which I believe remains in force to this day. All I ever got was postal addresses and I doubt they are still usable today. Most of my contacts were already 50-60 years old back then.
As a side note, I tried to get into the Bharat Rakshak discussion group forum tonight but got so tied up in trying to register with Yahoo.com, which you have to do do get into the Forum, that I finally gave up.
Let us keep on trying. These trucks are very interesting and I would like to get a complete story and photo archive of the whole lot of variants if possible as I am sure you would like to also.
Bill
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