Canadian Publications on the M38A1 CDN

[302Trooper]

I am hoping all members and readers can help contribute to assembling all Canadian Publications and Mod Instructions on the M38A1 CDN, CDN 2 and CDN 3. I have a Canadian Ordnance Catalogue Parts Identification List CV-32 for the M38 and M38A1 printed in July 1957. 599 pages of diagrams, part numbers ect. All these pubs or manuals have a Canadian twist to the US Army Technical Manuals. I also have a CDN 2 Service manual (Not the users manual)but the first few pages are missing and there is no CFP number assigned. Any help on this project would be much appreciated. I would be glad to share any reference material I have with other members.

Dave

[chris vickery]

I too, am interested in any and all manuals pertaining to M38 and M38A1CDN3.

Only seeking original CF materials, no repros. Also looking for CFTOs etc.

[rob love]

The Cdn2 maint manual may not originally have had a CFP number. Many of the tech manuals in the late 60s/early 70s were just identified by the NSN. In the late 70s we went to the NDID system of numbers, at which time a Jeep parts manual would have been something like C30-100-000/MY001.

The use of NSN for pubs can be seen if you look at the Cdn 2 or Cdn 3 data plate sets. All the manuals are shown simply by their NSNs. The first manuals for the M38s would have been the US manuals, with the exception of the operators manual, which was a Canadianized version of the US publication.

Also, there was a NSN'd manual for the M38 and the M38A1. When a bunch of amendments were added the NSN was changed, more amendments, the NSN changed again. Then when the Cdn 2 supplement was added, the NSN changed again. Finally, the Cdn3 amendments were added to the same book, and the NSN was changed once again. If you were not careful, you could order M38 parts when you meant to order parts for a Cdn3. This was a large book, with 626 pages before all the amendments were added.

Below on pic 1: from publications data plate Cdn2
pic 2: publications plate Cdn 3
pic 3 Publications plate M38Cdn