Hanno:
Only for you, mi amigo, did I dig into the cellar again and bear in mind we are in full spring season and the spiders are very hungry!!
In any case, the "several" MH catalogs turned out to be two plus a large number of photos. I crawled through your MH site and did not find one pic there that is presented in these two catalogs so, I will list the catalog # and date and if you don't have them I shall have to figure out how to copy them for you.
#1 is titled "10 years Before Pearl Harbor", Form #441001-2 and was published in 1944. 25 pages, about 80 photos all military.
#2 is titled MH All Wheel Drive Pictorial News Vol 8 No 1, form #390320-1. 16 pages and about the same number of pics but only 2-3 pages on military trucks.
I had forgotten about the connection with the CMP prototype program, chalk that up to a 12 year absence from the research I keep bringing up or that I drink too much Scotch Whiskey when I sit up here typing. Your choice
I had also forgotten that MH developed the prototype for the SEEP (amphibious Jeep) and turned it over to Ford for production.
It also reawakened another question I have had for a long time and that is what ever happened to the very large shipments of 6X6 7-9 tonne trucks that were exported to Iran. Well, for that matter also what happened to the scout cars & armoured cars which were delivered starting way back in 1932 it seems. I have never seen any info on these vehicles other than some references by Bart. In the photos in the first catalog are shown trucks ready for shipment to Iran and in one there are at least 50 and in the other looks about like 40. The larger trucks were mostly gun tractors and ammunition/personnel carriers.
Let me know if you have these catalogs, please.
Bill