War Dept. numbers

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by david moore

I assume that the whole 42xxxxx block was reserved for Canadian soft skins - but were they allocated by builder's contract as per the UK-built vehicles? Were these Canadian government or British government contracts? If the latter, then you should be able to find the contract? Or were they simply allocated their numbers by some quartermaster organisation as they arrived from N.America ( I have yet to find photo evidence of a single British-built softskin with a C prefix i.e. CH, CM, CL or CZ. Plenty of British-built CT's, CF's and CC's mind. No CA at all so far either!)

David,
According to the British "B" vehicle census, the block of numbers 4200000 to 4299999 was "Canadian not on 'B' census".

As for British built vehicles in the H, M, L and Z class with C prefix, there were a number of trucks in the L class that were issued to Canadians, ie Foden 6x4, Bedford QL, etc. would have to dig deep to find photos, though.

Richard