Bill, 1939 I think, and a Model VD with those twin rears. Note more bars on the 1-ton + cab and smaller top grille on the 1939. I have been trying to establish in recent months whether Chrysler had their Stockholm plant just before the war still.
I have a nice 1938 GM Nordiska 'anniversary' booklet' that I want to sell, in Swedish of course, with some nice photos showingn its location.
This is the CC60L 1940 Chevrolet Model 1543 ambulance:
Compare the body above with that fitted to the CMP in this unique shot! The photo was taken in the spring of 1940 allegedly, and was outside the Canadian Mechanization Depot in Southampton. I think that this may be right but I favour October 1940 when a movie film was made of the assembly processes.
It is of course a convoy of newly-assembled CMPs. The left and centre columns are Chevrolets...C60L on left? The centre trucks are C15s I think and the ambulance is said to be a F60L. However is that a C15 personnel carrier with the light canvas canopy? In the extreme background are possibly F60H trucks.
I apologise for the bandwith and size of the photo but such it is such a valuable photo to me, having written the story of the first CMD in Southampton, that I ask the Powers That be to excuse me for once.
May I add that this photo was taken in the storage area adjacent to the CMD, where there was also an oval-shaped test track for newly-assembled vehicles to be tried out. It was from that hardstanding in the photo on the evening of Friday 30 November 1940, amongst falling bombs, that a team of RCOC men led by an officer achieved a miraculous rescue of all of the vehicles stored outside awaiting delivery. The team had driven from Bordon Camp near Aldershot and saved a large number of trucks. Regrettably over 200 vehicles, C60L and Chev sedans included, were destroyed by fire. Thank goodness no-one was killed or injured despite all the efforts of the ARP, company staff on fire duty and the RCOC personnel camped nearby to put out the flames.