Vehicle Data Book: pre-March 1944 edition??

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Wow, great to see those original books!

Mike Cecil quoted Bill Gregg on the first version dating back to March 1943:

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Bill Gregg was quite open about the source being that data book. This from his introduction: 'The first part is essentially a photo facsimile of the original Vehicle Data Book issued in March 1943...'

For those looking for a copy, I posted a link to a downloadable pfd-version of the December 1944 edition here:

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Download and read “Canadian Military Headquarters. Vehicle Data Book (Restricted). 1944“ here:
https://wartimecanada.ca/document/se...icle-data-book

Screenshot_2020-04-26 Vehicle Data Book Pt1 pdf.jpg

[Alex van de Wetering]

Guys,

Thanks for your replies.

That's interesting, so given Bill Greggs mention of the "March 1944" book, it could be that there is at least a March 1944 and a December 1944 book and earlier publications in the form of the manual series as posted by Ed.

I will have a look with the link Hanno posted to see if there are differences between the december 1944 issue and Bill Greggs book based on the March 44 edition.


@Ed; I have never seen the manual series. Is that data book in the same style as the March 44 and/or December 44 Data book; one picture and a list of specs? Late 1942 means it would already have 13cab CMPs included?

@Paul; Sorry, my bad...I was after earlier publications of the official Data book, not the actual Gregg book. My copy is indeed the Volume 1, 2nd edition.

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

@Ed; I have never seen the manual series. Is that data book in the same style as the March 44 and/or December 44 Data book; one picture and a list of specs? Late 1942 means it would already have 13cab CMPs included?

Alex, here is a sample page Ed posted in an earlier thread. It looks like the Data Book Canadian Military Pattern Vehicles contains interesting info re. the C60X Machinery that you've been looking for?

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