CMP's from Moose Jaw

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Originally posted by sapper740
Question...What can you tell me about the siren on this CMP? Was it original or added later. Reason I'm asking is that I picked up a working 6 volt siren at a flea market that looks remarkably similar to the one on this truck. I'm thinking about installing it on my C15, if its original.

I'll assume you are talking about the item mounted on the left frame rail. That is the horn, and is the standard Ford commercial horn of the day, and was used on pretty much all the CMP fleet. It was on the early carriers, but this was dropped after the first couple thousand.

A chev horn was different. (It probably had to be liquid resistant to be near all that oil spraying out of those 216 engines) They were usually mounted on the engine manifold.

Canada didn't put sirens on it's combat vehicles. That seemed to be more an American trait. While it must have been impressive to see hundreds of vehicles coming ashore with sirens blazing, I'm not so sure the results would have been worthwhile.