War Department Numbers

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Jim, I might have the monthly Windsor Plant engine production numbers still, which wil tell me when Ford of Canada built your truck.

OTT that photo of the '40 Chevrolet has finally struck me after all these years as being a very rare shot. This is because it was either assembled at Aldershot (unlikely, as I thought that they were all Ford sedans or Wagons) or Southampton.There were several Chevy sedans destroyed in the bombing of the CMD in Southampton on November 30/ December 1 1940 and clearly this one escaped. It must have been delivered before the blitzing and thus with good timing. I believe that the Chevies were only shipped at the earliest in June 1940, and possibly a while later. Without checking I thinki the papers that I have ex-DND show that they may not have been ordered from GM until June.

The location is not Southampton and I wonder if it is in the Bordon, Hampshire, RCASC Depot? I have seen that photo hundreds of times and it never struck me before.