[Bob Carriere]

Hi Tony

in my 1940 GM army Parts list Jan. 40........15 is the series....they had ....13 half ton....14 one ton.... 15 2 tons and 18 2 ton cab over.....

Notice the absence of 3/4 ton.....the designation Commercial abd Utility seems to have disappeared at least in the army books....
-31 was a 2 ton Chassis with flat face cowl ...133 wheel base
-32.................................... windshield cowl 133 wb
-33...............................with cab 133 wb
-35 panel delivery 133 wb
jumps to
-41 was Chassis with flat face cowl....158 1/2 WB
-42 was a 2 ton 15 series with Chassis and windshield cowl... 158 1/2 WB
-43 is the Chassis with cab ...158 1/2 WB

So 1533 WA is a 1940 133 wb with cab...... the X2 was special eXport????

Then you have all the old Letter designation.....

A 1939 appropriated from local Egyptian source would have a
VA and a VB the only ones in the 133 wb

BUT they did have some odd ball smaller model used by officers and as medical trucks which could have been JD and JE as 3/4 Ton
with a 123 in. WB
I believe that the Windsor made Canadian "Water Fall grill" for LRDG were a real mix of odd ball parts that fitted the contrqact requirements.

The 1940 series has a "WA" series `1 1/2 ton with 133 WB

There are no 1942 Chev trucks with 133 inch WB......BUT they do have a
134 1/4 in

...and as odd balls go they may also have had 1938 chassis reproted as 1939 as we know some 1939 VB are registered as 1940 evenrthough they sport 1939 instrument clusters......

But I have seen more than one Australian contract cab 13 C60 with 16 inch running gear, long wheel base with 1940 civilian rectangular instrument cluster........

Than you had forward repair stations told to fix shot up trucks from the piles of blown parts they had.....

...and a book printed date of Jan 1940 must have been in the working stage for at least 3 to 5 months......

Then you have the Maple Leaf which is essentially a HD Chev as
series 16 with 2 1/2 ton capacity .....16-61 Chassis and cowl at 133 3/4 WB
....-62 with windshield at 133 3/4
and -63 chassis with cab at 133 3/4

Then the big boy a 16H as a 3 ton using the 61,62,63 numbers which I believe used the low oil pressure 235..

The point of all this is if you are reproducing one fo the first 30 some LRDG adapted locally by Egyptians shops you do have quite a latitude of freedom as to what you will use....... even the cute UTE conversion if they could get there hands on it....... Look at what they did to the beautiful woody station wagon that Montgomery used....... certainly was not done for low bridges ....

Now the Canadian made LRDG was more consistent but does looklike a 1941 front end............. and all were eventually field mofified either by design or by accident when shot at.....

Imagine how good a cooking surface the small hood of a cab 11 would be on a camping trip...... and you do not really need it to run......

Same for doors, tops, windshield and bumpers....all dead weight.

The LRDG may have been the early stage or precursor of "hippies"