Which Conflicts Have CMPs Taken Part In?

[Edwin Wand]

A friend served in Indonesia with the Dutch Army immediately after the war. At the time the Japanese were acting as civil police. His section used a Chev 15cwt as a radio truck with a 19 set.

[chris vickery]

It may be possible as late as the 70s or even 80s with the Indo-Pakistan conflict.
I do recall seeing a picture of 25pdr and No.27 limbers in service with the Indian army during this time frame.

[Lang]

I saw a CMP in Burma in March this year with regular army soldiers in the back (saw lots in the 90's still in Burmese service). They are engaged in a very real shooting conflict still with the Katchin and other rebels so I suppose the "last" is still to come after more than 70 years.

Lang

[Stuart Kirkham]

Malaysia 1951.

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/ma...-Commando.html

[sapper740]

Not military, but this pic shows a CMP/bus conversion in S.E. Asia 1964.

[Marc Montgomery]

In cleaning old papers, I came across a note I myself had scribbled saying the last CMP to come off the line was a C8a in Aug 1945..

Dont know why, or how I wrote that line, or where I might have obtained that info...but is this correct?

[David Dunlop]

Quite possible, Marc. For certain, GM was pushing out the last of a British contract for 1C11 bodied C8A's - July through September 1945 - at Oshawa. Don't know if anything else was being run at that time. I suspect GM finished vehicle orders first, spare parts commitments second and then sat on their thumbs until C.D. Howe gave the OK for them to retool for civilian production again. Not sure when that officially restarted in Canada at GM.

Holden may have seen a similar process in Australia.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery

In cleaning old papers, I came across a note I myself had scribbled saying the last CMP to come off the line was a C8a in Aug 1945..

Dont know why, or how I wrote that line, or where I might have obtained that info...but is this correct?

Don't know about C8A's, but I do know the latest-built CMP I ever saw was this Ford "F22" which was built on 12 November 1945. It is still alive and well in the hands of one of MLU's members.

f22_nunn_07.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery

In cleaning old papers, I came across a note I myself had scribbled saying the last CMP to come off the line was a C8a in Aug 1945..

Dont know why, or how I wrote that line, or where I might have obtained that info...but is this correct?

Here's a Chevrolet data plate fitting your notes: C60L APT built on "AUG-22-45"

C60L APT dataplate aug 1945.jpg