Canadian 2C1 body (box)
 

Recently located a 2C1 body which has been lengthened. It still has it's dataplate.

http://www.oldcmp.net/Images/collect.../2c1_plate.jpg

Can anyone deduce more information about it's type or use based on this?

Canadian Top & Body
 

42 03 2C1 5314 means this 2C1 cargo body was built by the Canadian Top & Body Corp. Ltd. of Tilbury, Ontario, Canada during March 1942. It's serial number is 5314. The body on my F15A has s/n 7025 and my truck is dated 13 January 1943. I found it strange that there are some 10 months between the built date of the body and the truck. Can anyone tell if this happened more often?

Bodies For CMP's
 

Hanno

I would guess that the body sub contractors at this stage of the war were turning out bodies at a very high rate.
Due to the fluctuation in contract orders for various types of truck/body type stock piles would result

Pete

Re: Bodies For CMP's
 

Pete,

You're probably right, one of Gregg's books has (a) picture(s) of stockpiled bodies. Thinking of the shortages of everything during WW2, it always surprises me when equipment using up vital resources was not put to good use as soon as possible. Today we still find wartime NOS vehicle parts galore, another example is the British unissued wartime-dated webbing I saw at Beltring a few years back. Piles of the stuff, made mid-war, never issued, stored for half a century and then auctioned off for a quid per pound or so. What a waste...but boy, are we happy with it!

Hanno