When did production of the #13 cab begin?

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

They are BLUEPRINT FOR VICTORY Parts/Volumes 1, 2 and 3:

http://www.rcakitshop.net/catalog/in...ae6fea6a3944f2

I think I have a few copies now of Volume 3, and I also have a signed copy of Volume 2 which is a limited edition plastic folder with printed pages in aort of looseleaf arrangement, ideal for modelers. There is a photo in there in connection, from memory, relating to Ford's introduction of a serial number system, of # 12 and 13 cabs parked in a building when new. I suspect that the photo was out of the National Archives but have yet to find it.

The books are excellent, and Volume 1 I gather has been reprinted so my copy must be one of the last of the later printing. They have stood the test of time very well, but I have updated a lot of the information therein, from the Archives, and also sources not available to Bill Gregg at the time. I regret that Sid Swallow died before I was able to communicate with him but I did exchange letters with Fords/ Canadian Mechanization HQ's Herb Ronson, although he died not long after I last heard from him; his brother who worked on Carriers at Fords survived him but I never contacted him.

That all said I keep finding nuggets of new information about the British assembly operations, usually from obscure files in the Archives, and I thus never stop improving my own literary work. I am just about to publish a two-parter on the Canadian Mechanization Depot at Citroen cars in Slough, Buckinghamshire, in VINTAGE ROADSCENE magazine. I wrote about the Southampton CMD in issue 110, and have published my work on the origins of CMPs in past issues of VRS (13 I think!). However I could not have done it without more than a nod of assistance from Bill's books.