Canadian / US CCKW-353

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I have been dialoguing with some guys interested in film locations, and am rather intrigued as to the GMCs with 'CL' census numbers borrowed, probably from Haymill Camp in Buckinghamshire near the Slough CMD. There were two or three used, which confirms that the Canadian forces used them by 1942ish. They are not referred-to in the Dr Gregg book so do we know when they came over?

I have no record of any CCKW-353 lorries being allocated to the British, but as there were, according to Bart Vanderveen, N African deliveries of CCW-353 6 x 4 versions, I did wonder if anyone had any proof that the Brits had them as well, and as they carried Mid-East Census Numbers would thus not be in the British Census Number book?

I suppose the US also used them in N African in OPERATION TORCH? Then Sicily.