M100 CDN trailer found in cross-border raid

[rob love]

As you are from Ottawa, we in the west do not consider this a border raid. Anything that is East of the Manitoba border is just that: East. You guys can steal from each others zones all you want. Don't try this on our side of the MB/Ont line without a permit however. Also, that line is actually somewhere just East of Thunder Bay.....everything West of Nipigon is Western.

All the Canadian M100 trailers were made at MCI. Must have been a conservative government in power for a contract to have left Ontario back then.

I forget the exact production numbers of the Cdn trailers, but 1200 would be getting up there I suspect.

Congrats on the find. I have a nice unmolested M100 kicking around the yard that has never left the yard in the years that I have owned it, but yet here she will remain. They are a neat piece.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Another forum has a thread on M100 CDN trailers, and someone mentioned the CFR will be found on the left tongue rail. I looked at mine, and unless the stamp is especially shallow, I don't see anything.

Would a kind soul look at their M100 CDN trailer and give me a better idea where to look - top, inside, outside, bottom? Measurement from a landmark? Size of the stamp font?

[jason meade]

Terry The CFR number is on the top railabout 4 to 6 inches back from the hitch,sometimes on either side.

[rob love]

The CFR will not be there if the arm was ever changed. Try some paint strippers, or else fine sandpaper, but don't be too surprised if nothing is there.

One could normally find it painted on the sides of the trailer as well, but generally these were sandblasted away during the life extension project in the early 80s. Still can be found on the early releases from the Trudeau military downsizing era.

[maple_leaf_eh]

The sourcing of parts continues. For instance, I found an intervehicle cable along with four salvaged tarp hooks on epay. (There was an internet browser conflict that damn near made me personna non grata on ebay when I couldn't make paypal work!) Brian Asbury responded with a NOS lunette, a salvage tool box, 2x NOS lights and a new-build wiring harness.

There is no base for the tool box, and both Brian and local Jeeper Eric Booth have volunteered measurements and drawings. Likewise Eric mentioned the wiring harness guard would be easy to reproduce.

Two major tasks remain, namely unsticking the seized (on, phew!) brakes and repairing/making a new back panel to replace the cutout back end.

[Casey B]

You may want to look up Harry Moons trailer restoration on the restoration part of this. he took the drum and all the brakes off the axle ends all in one piece and then he'll remove the siezed brak cylinder and shoes etc.
Put lots of eds red along the gap or where one should be between the drum and the backing plate. eds red one part acetone the other auto trans fliud equal parts shaken together. the wia then hit it hard...they'll loosen up. Ask harry about his and you may save a lot of grunt and time. Good luck!

[maple_leaf_eh]

Three things happened this evening worth mentioning. Armybuck041 came by in his M151 1/4 ton. My son and I went for a quick ride around the block. He also dropped off 2x AMU top mounts for my M38A1's future radio installation. AND, I found the CFR for my M100 trailer.

As indicated by the others, the registration number was there on the left arm of the tongue, about halfway along, under 8 layers of assorted paint. This trailer has a manufacturer's serial number of 1246 on the dataplate, and the CFR is 53-71233. The dash, as the guys have said, a sideways number 1.

Useful and fun!