ARN in AWM 126

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

In the Model of Vehicle column does "CVT" stand for Chevrolet?

Is the engine number on the 216 engine near the oil pump like it is on the Holden 202 motors are?

Kind regards
Lionel

CVT is Chevrolet.

Engine number is on Distributor side of engine, underneath the oil leak from the side cover.

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

CVT is Chevrolet.

Engine number is on Distributor side of engine, underneath the oil leak from the side cover.

Hello Tony,

Now that made me laugh... "underneath the oil leak from the side cover". A real classic - because it is founded in reality.

Thank you for your insight into AWM 126 manuals.

I did notice the "Impressed" pages. Also, the numerous entries that stated in red, "Lost in Greece".

Your comment about stores and munitions could explain something that Mike Kelly mentioned nine years ago. The rareness of 1940 Chevrolet trucks because they were involved in one way trips to the Middle East and certain Asian theatres of war. Places where they either became "under new management; or they were destroyed to prevent a change of management happening.

Protracting a thought - if there were pages of numbers that were not linked to vehicles in volumes of AWM 126; could these numbers be utilised by the clerks in the Departments of Supply, Munitions? So that the number which appears as a ghost image etched into the metal of my truck's bonnet - 77253 or 77259, could have been used to identify a Department of Supply or Munitions vehicle?

Did these Departments record such details in their own systems and are they still available? It would be good to trace an official entry of my truck and locate its place in history.

If you couldn't tell I am still tetchy about the vast majority of the page showing completed entries for "Approved for Disposal" and all the related details. With my Series 2A ambulance being one of the very rare examples on the same page where there is a blank line to the immediate left of the ARN. Absolutely zero disposal details - grumble .... grumble.

Kind regards
Lionel