I did see a US produced very early bowser at a local deuce graveyard. It had the prefix XM on the model number, but was clearly CFR'd. I had a look back 13 years here on MLU and here is what I wrote about that truck at the time:
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I found one cab had the data plate of the XM222 water truck. Serial number was somewhere around 0015, with a build date of 1952, and the crossed cannon ordnance corps inspectors mark stamped on the data plate. Obviously an early American made truck, but interestingly had a Canadian CFR number on the dash, with a 1954 model year.
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Perhaps we had some trials M135, and the army, in typical fashion, got rid of the non-conforming trucks by generously passing them on to the airforce. Or we may have simply mirrored the US early production. I note the airforce deuce does not have the hi-lo bow system in it's sideracks.