M100 cfr

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Ian Johns

I was able to find the CFR under some paint on my 1953 M100 trailer. Does anyone have any info on these numbers?

53-71179

Thanks

The EDR viewer skips past 71179 for 1/4 ton trailers. What is stamped on the left tow arm?

The manufacturer`s SN on EDR for 53-71200 is 1206, so I think the reference to 70200 was someone having a bad day at the keyboard. Although I don`t know why or how.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

The EDR viewer skips past 71179 for 1/4 ton trailers. What is stamped on the left tow arm?

The manufacturer`s SN on EDR for 53-71200 is 1206, so I think the reference to 70200 was someone having a bad day at the keyboard. Although I don`t know why or how.

The EDR viewer only contains information from equipment that was still in service from about 1977/78. If the trailer in question was an early release from the downsizing of the Cdn Forces in the Trudeau Era, then it would not appear in the EDR viewer.

The serial number from 70200 supports my hypothesis that the CFRs were assigned more or less in batches as the trailers left MCI. The numbers will usually be within a dozen or so of the CFR.

If you think about it, the M100 run started in Dec of 52 and run until what? March of 53? Figure at around 20 working days per month (conservative) with a run of about 1400 trailers, and you have less than 20 per day. If the DND quality inspector had someone on his team assigning the CFR numbers in batches of around that size, then the CFR and the serial should not vary by much more than that.

Your snapshot of the EDR viewer is too small to see if I am right on this hypothesis Terry.

[Al Nickolson]

Thanks for the info.

Al Nickolson

[Ian Johns]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

The EDR viewer skips past 71179 for 1/4 ton trailers. What is stamped on the left tow arm?

The manufacturer`s SN on EDR for 53-71200 is 1206, so I think the reference to 70200 was someone having a bad day at the keyboard. Although I don`t know why or how.

Some cowboy welded a plate over the top of the tow arms so it will have to wait until I cut it off.

The serial number off the plate is 1185.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Ian:

I went back to the EDR Viewer and found the mfr`s SN range. (The ECC is 131101 if anyone else is looking.) There is a pattern with 53-71179 falling into a gap. CFR 71176 is #1182, 71178 is #1184 and 71180 is #1186. There is no listing for 71177 or 71179. If as Rob Love has stated, the EDR Viewer started with all vehs in service at a specific start date, yours would have been surplused (or stolen ?!?) prior to that date.

Is the Crown still interested in that trailer or its recovery? I strongly doubt anyone would know where or how to build a case. The benefit of the doubt is on your side anyway.