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Old 29-11-11, 12:38
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I am not certain if this helps but I recently found this Cab 13 C60L in Thorne, Quebec dated January 13, 1942 on the dataplate. The truck was a "Gas-2" petrol carrier but had last been used as a snow plow/salter combo. I thought that it was odd that the army registration number "64.914" was painted on the first coat of yellow paint. It may have last been used by the RCAF but i thought that they had a seprate numbering sytem for vehicles.

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I was impressed by the data off the January 1942-build Gas-2! That is the earliest known (to me) 1942 MODEL C60L, and was clearly an Oshawa build for the Australian Government and not a) a Ministry of Supply order for Australia and b) a Holden-assembled truck.
David, why do you claim this to be an Aussie build??? Seems to me it never left Canada!
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Old 29-11-11, 16:12
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I have amended the offending word. It was clearly a CDLV contract!
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Old 30-11-11, 00:27
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Hi All

Years ago I had the pleasure of corresponding with Bart Vanderveen about when certain changes were made to HUPs. At that time some of the data bases which are now available were not. Bart's approach was to look at the changes in part numbers which often include notation of before or after such and such a serial number. Knowing the basic dates of the serial numbers to production dates gives a fairly tight dating. At that time Bart was trying to collect copies of all the various HUP parts books, I mailed him a June 1945 version.

Also at the CMP Forum in 84 memory says there was a discussion of when stuff happened, and a comment was made that cut dates are not as hard and fast as people might thing because parts in process could be used up after the change over date.

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You are right Phil I remeber that story very well It was not as cut and dried as everyone was led to believe
I have the tapes but I am having a little problem desiphering them
I will try to find the answer
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