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Originally Posted by Rob van Meel
At the War & Peace show in Beltring in 2018 we were discussing C8-AT’s as one does, and out of the blue some photographs of a MCC contract card for contract S.2831 given the following information materialised.
The card has a quite interesting note on the back: listing the total of converted ex-Portees:
T322 ref. 235 114 (S/M/2028)
V3772 ref. 216 18
V3950 ref. 220/266 397
V3957 ref. 227 207
V4171 ref. 252 283 (this is contract T322 in the Chilwell list)
V4538 ref. 261 168
Total 1187
V4997 ref. 329 138
New total 1325
Authors note: contract V3957 seems to have been for both Portees as C9/B and Predictors
I have a spare parts list for contract 294/V.4171(Con. 9B). 4171/252/1 is rubber stamped on the cover. (4171 is contract number, 252 is reference and /1 indicates a parts list). However contract V.4171, dated February 1942, is not in my RAOC Chilwell ‘B’ vehicle census list.
As the contract reference is identical to the one for the second T322 contract, and the contract reference numbers are unique within a specific manufacturer listing, it could well be that this is a typing error or missed alternation, in that T322 ref. 252 should have been V4171 ref. 252.
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Your listing for contract T322 makes reference to SM2028, which was the supply contract for the Canadian Chev CGT 2pdr Portees. Could the error or missed alteration somehow be for the different manufacturer's vehicle numbers that were converted under the same contract? By that, I mean that there should be no Morris Commercials under SM2028.