[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The F15A could most definitely represent the Ford F15s assembled in the Canadian Mechanization depot from April 1940, though strictly speaking there were no F15As I think assembled there. The F8s, namely the British Ford Model EC011DF, were assembled definitely either at Dagenham or ....Citroen Cars Limited, Slough [the second Canadian Mechanization Depot]! I have no evidnce that any F8s were assembled in Southampton but it is posible as F30 and F60L trucks were assembled in the the original CMD.

The good news is that I know of the manager at the Southampton building which is now a WIX Filtration filter plant. There are parts of the original Slough Trading Estate left, near where Citroens were until 1966 assembling cars. Their HQ is still in Slough of course.

That said I think the C30S as they were initially called were definitely assembled in Southampton.

The answer would appear to me to organise a run to CMD, Southampton with the local ECHO newspaper being invited to take shots. I'll be there with my official photos collection, and then the road run goes on to Slough? Could Dagenham be taken in as well? Perhaps RIPPLE LANE, Barking, industrial estate as well, where Ford assembled CMPs? If that sound s too much then I suggest SOUTHAMPTON, then SLOUGH.