CMP's in Chinese Service

[David Dunlop]

Great stuff, gentlemen! Amazing where these vehicles keep popping up. Be interesting to find one still in a yard in Taiwan to see what the data plates might have to say.

David

[rob love]

I suspect that in the thirst for raw resources, there would not be very much loose scrap left in those parts of the world. Their scrap guys are even showing up in this neck of the woods looking for large quantities of scrap metal, and shipping it back.

This thread made me recall that I had a 20cwt trailer that was marked for Aid-China on the data plate. The data plate was riveted upside down, I suppose so that when the trailer went to the bottom half of the world it could be read.

I believe the date on the plate is Oct of 45, so the aid is post war.

[Tony Wheeler]

Thousands of vehicles were supplied to China via the Ledo Road during '45 so perhaps there were CMPs amongst them...? Certainly we see '45 production CMPs supplied in large numbers to India, including convoys at work on the aerial supply line to China, so perhaps there were Chinese CMP contracts in '45 as well...? Or would they be US vehicles exclusively?

"On 12 January 1945, the first convoy of 113 vehicles, led by General Pick, departed from Ledo; they reached Kunming, China on 4 February 1945. In the six months following its opening, trucks carried 129,000 tons of supplies from India to China. Twenty-six thousand trucks that carried the cargo (one way) were handed over to the Chinese." (source: Wiki)

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[Eduard Sorokin]

Anyway, there is a quite many photos of US-made vehicles in China, but not Canadian- and British-made.