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Whilst doing some research for the other thread I found:
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Why at a loss? They had enough problems with dealing with the massive contracts placed through the British Supply Board in Ottawa that month! |
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Possibly that was just his reaction to another large potential order: "Oh, flippin 'eck! Not more!"
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You must be right!!!
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I am going to wade through the Australian papers relating to release of WD vehicles in 1941 to see if I can add anything further. |
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David, It will be interesting to see what you find, you might even come across the chev cab 11 30 cwt that we have here.
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That would be S/M 2003! Originally it was to be a delivery:
1,500 30-cwt. Fords for Bombay and 1,500 Chevrolets for England and this was changed a short time later: 1,200 30-cwt. Fords for Egypt and 300 for Mombasa, with 1,500 Chevrolets for England This would have been one sent out from England, I was going to suggest being shipped out with the AIF sent to the Mid-East but I don't think that there was enough time to get from Oshawa to England, be assembled and then shipped off under a change of plan whilst the AIF sailed say in December '40? Unless there was a switch of destination at sea, this truck would have been sent out I would say in the new year, possibly February '41? Perhaps even later? |
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