Chevrolet 1542 MCP

[Dave Ashby]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

This scan was submitted by John Valenti.

It explains the 1500 series are 1941-1942 model 2-ton trucks.

Attachment 118223

Do we know the date of this document and wether it was superseded post 42?
Meaning if this document was produced in 42 the 1500 series would be 41 and 42, production of the 1500 series could have continued after but the info wouldn’t be on this particular document.

Dave

[David Dunlop]

Good point, Dave.

There are factory photos out there of wartime CMP production lines and they were definitely not linear. You can see Cab 13 and earlier models all rolling down the line at the same time, so a lot of Cab 12’s will be out there dated younger than some Cab 13’s.

Documentation can be quite grey at times.

David

[Paul Singleton]

Originally Posted by Dave Ashby

Do we know the date of this document and wether it was superseded post 42?
Meaning if this document was produced in 42 the 1500 series would be 41 and 42, production of the 1500 series could have continued after but the info wouldn’t be on this particular document.

Dave

As I mentioned in my earlier post your truck is a 1944 model by the serial number and model 1542.

[Mike K]

Dave

These RHD 41 to 47 Chev trucks were pretty much ubiquitous across Australia . There were so many of them around, in the various models, including the Lend-Lease version with the Jeep type black out lamps on the main headlamps.

Found one for sale at Neerim ... close to me

[Mike K]

Chev trucks everywhere ! Even the local greengrocer was selling Chevs ! "I will take a box of apples and a chevy ute thanks"

[Mike Cecil]

The image of the build plate in Hanno's Post 4 (above) shows the weight - gross weight? - as 6125 kilograms, which seems unusual for a lorry destined for Britain or the British Commonwealth, which countries were all still using Imperial measure during the war.

Mike

[David Herbert]

Well spotted Mike, You get the prize for seeing what had not been noticed by anyone else in the subsequent 18 posts ! You are quite right, that is very odd given that the whole UK, Canadian, US war machine was fervently non metric.

David (Recovering from an excellent Christmas dinner)

[Mike Cecil]

French contract, perhaps? Or some other part of the world that could only count in multiples of 10 ....?

Mike