Help with markings and #'s on new truck

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
The configuration of 52-300 suggests the post war CAR (Canadian Army Registration) number. Applied to the sides of both doors, and the 52 has nothing to do with any year.

It is the DND serial number as used on vehicles for domestic use. As far as I know, Z over 51-300 could be wartime just as well. See John McNarry's '43 f15a for another example.

H.