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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hello Alex
I agree with you about Rod. Whilst we have the overt, in your face Keefy with his vast knowledge, he could almost come within my Salesman class, we have Rod as the Quiet Achiever. I know you lurk around the place Rod, it would be nice to see more input from you.
Bob
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Hi Bob..
I started up Military Manuals in 1995 and over the years have corresponded with lovers,restorers and enthusiests of CMP and Canadian built WW 2 machines from all over the world..Rod was my first customer from Australia and one of my very first customers..
He really introduced me to CMP's through his old web site..Rod has forgotten more about CMP's than most of us will ever know..
There are too many here in the fraternity to mention that helped to promote the craft but Marc Montgomery and Convoy Magazine also has done a very honourable job in promoting Canadian Military History and the CMP story..
Then there is David Hayward in England..the "Guru of Numbers"...
Bruce Parker..the only guy who would dissemble his Fox CMP and store it in little pieces inside his house(Which I saw with my own eyes..)
Nigel Watson..."Knower of all things Carrier"..Pete Ashby..Richard Farrant..The Eatons..Mark 1 and Mark 11...Keefy Webb,pornograp,,...er...photographer extrordinaire...Bob Carriere..who has been at this since he was in his teens,with old Military vehicles,still has some of them around the farm is still at it and is two days older than dirt.....
Brian Gough...and on and on and on...
And I have had the pleasure of corresponding with almost everyone in this field through my Military manuals site or MLU or Convoy forums..
The latest contact was today from a chap from Zaire,Africa...he has located a Diamond "T" that was driven down from North Africa after the war and he is trying to buy it and restore it..
I will be introducing him to MLU and would love to hear the rest of the story..
So there are more storys to read and write..they just have to be dug out..
And special mention of Phil Waterman..one of the first to recognize the CMP was special historically and Peter Ford,who last visited me on his way home to Saskatchewan with his daughter Elizabeth,a week before he passed away..
And Rolf Ask,Don Dingwall,Mike Cecil...and and and .....
