Dating CMP F15A

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

In general terms, dating by the front shell:

No name under headlights - 1942

Just 'FORD' 1943

Trying to narrow it down a bit further: my F15A was built Jan. 1943. Except for the missing toolbox it is totally original and does not have the name under the headlights, a square roof hatch and civilian instrument cluster.

HTH,
Hanno

[Tony Smith]

And to show that all rules can be broken, David Hayward is certain that these F60B trucks were assembled by Pearson's of Liverpool in 1943. These feature "Ford Canada" cowls and sling-type hubs. In 1943! What month they left Canada and how long they remained crated is anybody's guess.

[Bob Carriere]

The issue of when they were built..... and when they were assembled in England. .....can be months apart.... using what parts were available when half the fleet got sunk on the way over... and what was on the front of the shelf on that particular rainy Wednesday morning... so many possibities/variations... not to mention the rebuild/repair centres who used what they had available or cannibalized.... look at all the left over Dirk as been collecting......

We can be a little more certain when we find them in Canada particularly the late contract such as the C60 for the Aussie contract built in late Summer 1944 and they have a civvy dash and a round gauge dash and built a week apart..... or was it a repair center modification.....??????? David mentioned how the serial numbers of engines were not sequential...... some will even support a great conspiracy to mix numbers to confuse the Germans...
I support the reality of lazyness...... when they needed an engine from stock they took the first one near the front of the pile.... even if it only came in that morning.... the ones at the back where eventually reached when production slowed down.... I really don't think that the FIFO and LILO inventory concept was very well known in those desperate years.....

BooBee

Nothing is certain.... except that they are CMP for sure !!!!!!

Bob C.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

And to show that all rules can be broken, David Hayward is certain that these F60B trucks were assembled by Pearson's of Liverpool in 1943. These feature "Ford Canada" cowls and sling-type hubs. In 1943! What month they left Canada and how long they remained crated is anybody's guess.

That's a curly one, although there must be someone with a list of the service bulletins which would indicate when items such as the slinging hubs were first introduced which would give an absolute 'not before' date.