I don't want to sway this discussion from the excellent information on the M38 and M38A1 serial numbers, production numbers and CAR (CFR) numbers, but I wanted to cross post this list regarding assignment of CAR numbers to various artillery dated October of 51. Note that blocks of CAR numbers from 30001 to 30200, 31001 to 31200, 31400 to 31600 (penned in) and 32001 to 32010 were meant to be assigned to 3.7AA guns with various mountings. I suspect these blocks are a bit wider than the number of guns in service at the time, but it may explain why there could be some gaps in the CFR blocks. It is apparent from some posts in this thread that the M38 CFRs overlapped into these blocks.
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