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