[Alex Blair (RIP)]

David...
Bob may be on to something.....

Would the screws holding the dask plate indicate some attempt at creative vehicle registration....??


What if only the plates were sent back to Canada,the plates then attached to new-used-scrap trucks ,the freight costs bypassed,by the plate owners and the freight costs billed to the government and pocketed..

With war time contracts floating around and post war contracts there was many a scoundrell that would make an easy buck having a buddy in OZ..

Even if the government just brought the plates back for accounting purposes and put on their owm trucks is not inconceiveable..
As a refrigeration contractor and dealer,I would regularly knock the serial plate off and send it in for warranty on DOA compressors that would not be worth the freight costs to ship back to them...so it is an accepted legal business method..
Any thing is possible..