CFP 303(4) Staff Data Handbook vehicle info

[Dan Martel]

Gentlemen,

I recently came into possession of the March 1975 edition of the this manual. It has a treasure trove of information on all of the land force's vehicles in service at the time including armoured, soft skinned, trailers and artillery. All vehicles are listed by their ECC (Equipment Configuration Code) with full name and description. It then provides the overall dimensions (length, width, height and reduced height) in centimetres and inches, the weight both laden and unladen in kilograms and pounds and finally the shipping space required again in metric and imperial.

As an example of the details available the handbook includes twelve different versions of 1/4 ton vehicles, twenty-seven different versions of 3/4 ton vehicles and forty-five different versions of 2 1/2 ton vehicles.

There is a section on all of the different types of ammunition and their markings used by the land forces and supporting tactical aircraft (rotary and fixed wing). It includes how the ammunition was packed for transport and identifies all of the ammunition types by their Nato Stock Number (NSN).

For those of you interested in the esoteric there are example loading tables for the Hercules, Buffalo and 707 aircraft, along with the same for the DDH, DDE and the supply ships used by Maritime Command.

There is a section on the POL used as well as the bridge classifications for vehicles mentioned above. All in all a very useful manual for CF vehicle information.

If anyone has any questions to ask about the details of their favourite vehicle please feel free and I'll look it up and let you know. I would ask that any questions be posted on the open forum for the benefit of everyone. If, however, you wish to pm me back door then that's fine too.

Dan.