Vehicle ID Please

[Ed Storey]

Good point, as there is certainly the potential for that RCAF vehicle to have been a pre-production vehicle. It is amazing that there is still so much to learn about the story behind the Canadian M Series vehicles.

[Ed Storey]

I did a little checking through some of my manuals and discovered these M135CDN images were used to illustrate the Data Summaries. This one on the March 1952 edition,

M135CDN Truck ECC 124101 copy.jpg

and this one one the March 1972 edition.

M135CDN Truck 56376 ECC 124101 copy.jpg

[rob love]

Interesting. Both boxes are the early type. The first truck has the low tarp on it, where the second truck has the hi-lo adjustable tarp.

I'll have to keep an eye during my travels for the early box, and see what serial range they fall in. Inquiring minds want to know.

[Ed Storey]

There is a strong possibility that the vehicle used on the 1972 Data Summary was a LETE vehicle which could perhaps explain why an early box vehicle was used on the publication as they held some strange vehicle variants.

I am sure there is a landfill somewhere outside of Ottawa filled with the documentation on the M135/M211CDN vehicles.