More GM goodies...

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Nice Canadian GM history here...I'm on it...

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[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Did you buy it?

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Hi David
Yes,I got that one and this one coming also....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ADME:B:BN:US:1

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I wish I had known, but I would not have bid against you! However, for my PhD thesis on the Southampton Plant I desperately need copies of the information on General Motors Limited plus a copy of the photo of the wrecked plant that is printed [see the book pages shown]. Are you interested in turning the book around at a profit, i.e. selling it at say $80 or would you lend it please? I find it amazing that in '44 they were putting things down in writing and in print even that shortly before, say '42, there was a completely opposite view!

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

David
This is my reason to secure these manuals...To make them available to all..
Who knows where this has been burried for the last 60 years..available to no one..
I'll post when I recieve it..

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

What's so damned annoying is that I have more or less finished my thesis and then up pops this fantastic piece of historical text that is of immense value. Then to find that they have another photograph of the blitzed Southampton Plant from 1 or 2 December 1940 [that's when it was taken] that I never knew existed! I have collected photos of the Plant from Canada and the UK and the US come to think of it, and now I find another! Incidentally the shot is facing eastwards in the Crane Bay, and you can see a Chevrolet 4-door sedan blown to pieces and also a Canadian Ingersoll-Rand 15-cwt. Compressor Trailer. On the left are some of the C.60L chassis I think that had been melted by the heat.

Also in the text are photos of 1938 Chevrolet trucks, one of which I know was issued to the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force/Police if I have got it right....see Wheels & Tracks. These were delivered through GM Near East in Alexandria. To be honest in 1944 they were effectively rewriting official GM history retrospectively and skipping over certain aspects that were too delicate to be remembered. That's why the book is so important, and goodness knows why I never knew of its existence before. That said I had no idea that GM of Canada had produced their War Album [copied/scanned] and Vauxhall Motors issued their book entitled 'An Account of Our Stewardship', that I have acquired a copy of. There was also a Dagenham Ford book published 1946 that is rare but had details of the war record...does it have CMPs I wonder? Must find out.

Alex what do you want to do please? I don't mind buying it off you, or paying a proportion of the cost plus scanning/CD Rom costs. If I owned it I would add it to my collection that is available to all..I have GM Limited's official photo album from 1940-41 that I rescued from a waste bin and paid £400 for negatives/prints to be made of all the photos. They do of course include some CMPs and a few MCPs. What I am most anxious about is to seek a copy of the Southampton Plant photo, plus those of the pre-war trucks. This last aspect dates from summer 1938 when there was meeting at the War Office whereby GM agreed to sell a large number of Chevrolet trucks to the Mid-East forces including the RAF. Some of these ended up with the LRDG incidentally.

AS A THIRD THOUGHT..I AM QUITE HAPPY TO BORROW AND RETURN...I LEAVE IN YOUR HANDS. PLEASE CARRY ON THE EXCELLENT WORK AS THIS AND OTHER BOOKS WOULD NEVER HAVE COME TO LIGHT AND BE MADE AVAILABLE.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

David
I will make this available as soon as I get it and have it mastered..
I will contact you off line when This is available..
I'll also list it on my web site..

[Steve Guthrie]

Hello Alex

Good By!

I noticed the similarity between the side views of the vehicles and that series of stamps on motor vehicles put out by Canada Post a few years ago (the 3-ton ambulance particularly)

Congrats again

Steve

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Thanks Alex and kreep on good buying! You must be broke now from all these manuals wending their way into your home?