Three 60 cwt plates

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Cliff Hutchings I visited the trucks at Kingaroy Queensland. and photographed the data plates off the C60L and 2 F60L CMPs. This is my interpretation:

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LIMITED
CHASSIS MODEL P 106
CAB MODEL [BLANK] [BUT # 13]
CHASSIS SERIAL 3-8443-60501 [C60L]
ENGINE SERIAL PR3934984
ORDER NO. E-52-384
DATE PF MFG. 10 7 43 or is it 44? not it's October 10 1944

Note that the Chassis Model is wrong...and yet it says a lot. I suspect that the truck was assembled in Perth Plant, # 105, and that this was not a CKD chassis but SKD. What a find! I have not seen this peculiar [namely unique] placement of what I believe is the local assembly plant and the local sequential number on a dataplate. Now, if the chassis had been CKD then I suggest that the serial would have been 3844300105P or similar. I have yet however to find an Adelaide-assembled ["A"] chassis. Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney we know of.

2. The second:
:
SERIAL 12713
MOTOR 2G-32290F [1941 MODEL]
MODEL F-60L

3. The third:
SERIAL 14097
MOTOR 2G-40139F [1941]
MODEL F-60L

[Max Hedges]

David

just been to the neighbours and got two more numbers

38444M00003

2844200379M

also we have two chev 4x2 without any original chassis numbers , but they have a S in a circle stamped on the left side on the chassis rail where we find the other numbers. We have a few fords to check out yet.

Max

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Thanks for those Max..I have added them to my database. I believe that the "S" undicates Sydney assembly...Holden's used to use that type of designation on Chevrolet chassis assembled from about 1928.

[Keith Orpin]

David,
I'm not so sure that the S in a circle indicates a Sydney assembled truck, as on my C30 in the same position, there is an S within an almost complete circle ( looks more like a capital C). I wondered if this may have stood for Canadian Steel.
Question- It would appear that Chevrolet only marked some chassis numbers, is this correct?
Regards
Keith