CMP Ford F60S

[David Dunlop]

Hi Richard.

That is the first data plate I have ever seen referencing a CMP built to fulfill two possible Contracts. Is it possible to track that contract down to see what it is all about?

My feeble thought at the moment is if that vehicle was indeed built 5 January 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic was peaking between January and July 1942 in terms of shipping losses suffered. Maybe two identical contracts were combined, the thought being anything intended for England would still be used to complete the Canadian Contract if shipping came to a halt.

Second point. Post war England was broke and any manufacturing would be working flat out to sell product anywhere they could in the Commonwealth. Edward Brothers would have been very familiar with CMP’s and it would have been nothing for them to custom design their Tipper Kits for any Ford or Chevrolet CMP and ship it anywhere for local installation. By todays standards, postwar shipping was cheap. Lots of cargo/freighters heading everywhere. The ad you posted shows distributors for this product across the UK. They probably had a Canadian distributor as well.

So you probably have a very unusual CMP, built at an interesting time during the war, that stayed in Canada and got a very interesting civilian conversion in its post war life. You lucky guy!

David