G749 Picture and info thread

[Dave D.]

Wayne, you're in Water Valley,...... I apologize. I spent 4 winters at Old's College and helped Bruce Smith spill so many peanuts on the floor at your bar I still feel guilty!

Thank you for the links, every byte of info helps!

We lost an M133 CDN to Washington and unless someone beats me to this post...I'm the first one to talk to the owner of an M133 CDN. Now that I said that, more M133's will show up, I hope. This M133 went to the right guy who rebuilt the motor, transmission, shaved the head and tweaked the 302 to its optimum performance.

Rob, some real nice fella pulled this info for me back in 2013. I'll find a way to really thank that guy someday!

More the M211

53313 belonged to CFB Penhold from 1955 until 1979. From there it was transferred to HQ and Sig Calgary until retirement in 1984. It's last recorded work order had the mileage at 72289 miles.

Goose the M135

53714 Was in Wainwright from 1956 until 1980. It went to Edmonton for 80-81, back to Wainwright for the summer of 81, then off to Calgary until retirement in 1984. On release it had 15835 miles.

[rob love]

The museum I work for (RCA Museum Shilo) also has an M133 with winch. I assume they were cab/chassis initially.

There is one of the line trucks about 15 minutes from here that is single wheeled as opposed to the dual wheeled version which was more common. I had expected it to originally be an M133 however the data plate on it showed M135.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Re: Dental vans...

There is/was a pristine one in the Base Borden museum.

IIRC, it had plexiglass cover so that the interior could be viewed.

Its CAR was 52-50000.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Re: Dental vans...

There is/was a pristine one in the Base Borden museum.

IIRC, it had plexiglass cover so that the interior could be viewed.

Its CAR was 52-50000.

Jon
I have not been to the Borden museum in at least 25 years, but the few cells of grey matter that still work tell me that 52-5000 was a cargo. It is the kind of number you remember. Also, it is likely that 50000 would be serial no1 (or very close).

A quick google revealed I am right.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Well, Rob, you're absolutely correct about 52-50000 being a cargo with an RCASC unit sign.

I have that exact same picture from the same angle.

WRT to the dental van, I have a shot from behind showing the interior through the plexiglass.

Dunno what got it into my head about the CAR for it because the side shot I have of it shows no CAR at all.

Borden is only ~1 1/2 hrs away...I'll have to slide down some day and refresh my memory.

Apologies to all for posting misleading info.

[jdmcm]

Jon can you post the pictures of the inside of the dental van you have?

Thanks
John

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Well, Rob, you're absolutely correct about 52-50000 being a cargo with an RCASC unit sign.

I have that exact same picture from the same angle.

WRT to the dental van, I have a shot from behind showing the interior through the plexiglass.

Dunno what got it into my head about the CAR for it because the side shot I have of it shows no CAR at all.

Borden is only ~1 1/2 hrs away...I'll have to slide down some day and refresh my memory.

Apologies to all for posting misleading info.

Not at all Jon....it made me think for a minute.

If you could talk the duty staff into it, how about taking a photo of the serial number plate on 50000?

[Dave D.]

Originally Posted by rob love

Jon
I have not been to the Borden museum in at least 25 years, but the few cells of grey matter that still work tell me that 52-5000 was a cargo. It is the kind of number you remember. Also, it is likely that 50000 would be serial no1 (or very close).

A quick google revealed I am right.

Having truck No.1 in a museum would be nice. Keeping you guys around so we can lock all the history down is better so thanks for the info.

Did Canada's G749 manufacturer stamp each frame consecutively as they came out the door?

The truck on the right is Gizmo the Nov. 22, 1956, M135. 113506074 is stamped in the frame.
Does that mean we had at least 6074 M135's manufactured in Canada?

The middle M135 is Goose, the March 16, 1956 baby with 113504873 stamped in the frame.

Does that indicate Canada built 1,201 M135's in roughly 8 months and 5 days?

My BATUS truck is July 11, 1956 and is stamped 5503. That suggests 630 units from mid March to Mid July, 571 more units to Nov. 22.

I think we need to find the last Deuce we built for a museum project.

[Dave D.]

The M133 Chassis and Cab is as unrecognized as Early Deuce mufflers so we need to tell that story. Is the M133 the cab and chassis they added cranes, augers, spotlights, cages, flying kitchens and other oddities on?

It shows up in the operators manual but I'm sure it has a bigger story?

This one had a box added at some point and is the nicest M133 I've seen.
Need to get to Shilo one day.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Dave D.

Did Canada's G749 manufacturer stamp each frame consecutively as they came out the door?

The truck on the right is Gizmo the Nov. 22, 1956, M135. 113506074 is stamped in the frame.
Does that mean we had at least 6074 M135's manufactured in Canada?

My M135 was made on 23 Nov 1956, and bears serial number 6078.

The history on mine is pretty bland: CFB Calgary until about 1980 and then it went to CFB Winnipeg. I almost suspect it was in war storage at both locations. The truck only had about 23,000 miles on it and never saw camo or a paintbrush.

There were also some US trucks that made it into the Cdn system. I saw the remains of a XM216 with a very low serial number, crossed cannons, and a 1954 Cdn CFR number.

More on my deuce restoration can be seen at this link: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=19471

[DanJahn]

After seeing the earlier post with a picture of the operators manual for the 6x6 Canadian GMC I thought i would mention that I have a operators manual dated 1951 CDN-0M9-819A Operators Manual 2 1/2 Ton 6x6 GMC ( Canadian ) . The interesting thing about this manual is that it lists the M218 Light Wrecker Truck but there is no picture of the M218 in the manual. I have been in this hobby for quite some time and have owned a number of The M series GMC 6x6s but this is the only manual that I have seen that mentions the M218. I wish I knew how to post pictures on this site. If anyone is interested I could scan the cover and send it to you.

Dan Jahn