[David_Hayward (RIP)]

As we all know the original CANADIAN MECHANIZATION DEPOT was based in the General Motors Limited works in West Bay Road, New Docks, Southampton, after most of the plant was leased to the Canadian Government in February 1940. The CMD was run by a civilian team, all it seems, ex-Ford of Canada, and based at Canadian Mechanization HQ in 2,3 & 4 Cockspur Street, the former Sun Life of Canada Assurance building right behind the Canadian High Commission which itself faced on to Trafalgar Square in central London. My garndfather worked in the Admiralty just a stone's throw away in Horse Guard's Parade. The attached photo is from 1940.