Two new pages of Western Desert images

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Bill, there is a commonly held fallacious belief that Canadian exports to British Empire countries were somehow less expensive when landed. See my file which covers this:

http://www.gmhistorian.btinternet.co...CEDEBUNKED.htm

As regards the exclusive rights, this essentially was a Ford issue I think, RHD Fords being to my knowledge exclusively Canadian sourced. Egypt I think drove on the right so there was no problem in that respect although the Alexandria operation could have imported from the US or Windsor.

The GM Near East facility was a CKD assembly plant and as such they imported the CKD kits from Chevrolet Bloomfield New Jersey Boxing Plant. This was a very slick boxing operation that had costs pared to a bone after many years of experience.

The only possible candidates for Alexandria assembled Chevrolets I know of are in the Wheels & Tracks issue on 'Desert Chevrolets' plus one more page I have from the GM Overseas Operations War Album: