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14-07-14, 06:42
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Dear Colleagues; I am not very familiar with the serial numbers painted on the CMP trucks and don't know what they tell about manufacturing year and so on - may one of you explain me what he can read from this photo?
BTW - the number is painted on the LRDG patrol truck resting in the Sand Sea in Egypt. I forgot to look for it when I was there in 2010  ... luckily, others think further 
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15-07-14, 07:46
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Kuno,
What you show is L4406114, the War Department census number, the formal registration number assigned to this truck. L stands for the lorry class of vehicles. Do you have a picture of the complete truck? That would help in identifying it further. Hanno
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29-12-15, 13:39
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...after a long period looking after vintage aircraft and keeping myself a bit busy with a nice 1930 Ford A (modified to the version used for desert expeditions in the 1930ies) I am obviously coming back to trucks.
This time I am looking for information regarding MACK 10to trucks which were used to supply Kufra from Wadi Halfa in 1941. The unit given in an album is "4. Line of Command"... which is not actually a unit. Here I am struggeling. I could read the following census numbers on the trucks: L 265 542 L 266 204 L 266 057 L _01 252 (First digit missing) L 265 591 L 266 181 (not clearly readable) Would it happen that anybody here in the forum is able to identify these numbers and to tell me the exact type of truck and -more important- to which unit it went? Many thanks in advance - and have a happy new year 2016!
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29-12-15, 14:16
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Hi Kuno
Assuming these numbers are complete, ie L plus 6 digits, then they all fall in a large group of numbers that were not used. This may seem odd, but I wonder if they were transferred from US Army in the Middle East and not official allocated numbers. Regards the number on the Ford that you asked about, that falls in a group of numbers allocated to "Commander in Chief, Middle East - various types". regards, Richard
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29-12-15, 14:24
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Thank you, Richard, for this fast response.
Regarding the census numbers - it may be that the trucks wearing them were idnead transferred from civilian ownership into military service. I need to dig into the books again but I recal that the LRDGs "heavy Section" was equipped with MACKs and WHITEs obtained from oil companies working in the Middle East.
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29-12-15, 14:28
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I realised after posting that the date 1941 was too early for vehicles to have been transfer from US Army in theatre so your theory on them coming from oil companies makes more sense and hence why they are given numbers from a group not allocated. It always made me wonder why there were unused blocks, maybe it was for circumstances such as this. regards, Richard
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Richard 1943 Bedford QLD lorry - 1941 BSA WM20 m/cycle - 1943 Daimler Scout Car Mk2 Member of MVT, IMPS, MVG of NSW, KVE and AMVCS KVE President & KVE News Editor
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17-02-16, 06:05
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LRDG webpage (click bait but news)
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Terry Warner - 74-????? M151A2 - 70-08876 M38A1 - 53-71233 M100CDN trailer Beware! The Green Disease walks among us!
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17-02-16, 08:19
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Here's the original article by Kuno Gross, a member of MLU:
http://www.desert-vehicles.org/index.php?article_id=204 I have merged your post and this reply into the relevant thread.
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13-05-16, 00:05
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Hi all,
Probably here is the right place to ask: were all those 70 Ford F30 trucks of LRDG with GM axles? TIA
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