C8A HUM census numbers?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by M.Morren

Hi Phil,

The serial and engine numbers are:
Chassis: 3844515289
Engine: FR3918642

Hello Marty,

LV.1679 was one of the contracts for C8A's, see Chevrolet Heavy Utility contracts.

Search this forum, and you'll find a few more C8A's supplied under that number.

HTH,
Hanno

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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Parts of David Hayward's site were copied to other sites, for Chevrolet census numbers see his page:

"ALLOCATION OF W.D. NUMBERS BY CENTRAL CENSUS TO 23RD NOVEMBER 1944 - CHEVROLET"
at http://www.gregwapling.com/hotrod/ch...t/warchev.html

Search for "C.8A"

HTH,
Hanno

Originally Posted by David_Hayward (RIP)

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...k/warchev.html
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...k/warford.html


http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...lk/WARGMC.html


http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...dgelisting.htm
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...dgelisting.doc

Please note that these are out-of-date, and in the Ford listing there are some errors and new information.

[M.Morren]

Hi Hanno,

Thank you for sharing the link.
I'm sadly not able to get any meaningful info out of it though.
Searching fir the contract number also has not brought up anything solid.
Maybe I'm not looking good enough?
And maybe someone else has any info?

Cheers!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Marty,

Following Bram Goudkuil's suggestion I searched on the RLC Archive (https://www.rlcarchive.org) and got a subscription to do some digging.

One contract I found was (corrected below is it was transcribed incorrectly in the RLCA database):

• M 6230395 to M 6230594 SM6407 Chevrolet Car 4x4 Hvy., Utility

SM.6407 Chevrolet C8A.jpg

According to David Hayward SM6407 was an order for the C8A with 1C11 staff car body, so this number range would not really fit your C8A body style.

Originally Posted by David_Hayward (RIP)

I wanted to stimulate a discussion about the very end of CMP production. The last known [to me] CMP was 1C11 STAFF CAR 4844521386 ENGINE # FR4,057,573 AUGUST 31 1945 to British order SM 6407.

HTH,
Hanno

[M.Morren]

Hi Hanno,

Is M here the prefix as in CM? What does the M mean?
Also, I have to do some research on how the WD numbers work. I've not yet seen a number that started with 62.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by M.Morren

Hi Hanno,

Is M here the prefix as in CM? What does the M mean?
Also, I have to do some research on how the WD numbers work. I've not yet seen a number that started with 62.

Hi Marty,

Read for example https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/veh...lemarkings.htm > War Department/Census Numbers > Overseas

"M" stood for Car (staff car, jeep, etc.). As SM6407 was a British contract, they would not add the "C" in front as the Canadian Army did. Not a suitable census number range, as I said, we'll have to keep looking!

Hanno

[M.Morren]

Thanks for the info!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

PS: also do some searching for threads with "census" in the title.