Hello from a new member

[benbfkt]

Hello everyone

I'm french and the dear owner of à C8. Someone meet in June in Normandy tell me good things about this forum.

Some pics on normandy road.

I'm member of maple-leaf / souvenir canadien. This is a french association based in Normandy.

I'm looking for informations about my C8 and want to finish a better restoration.

thanks

Benoit

[Keith Webb]

Welcome Benoit

Wonderful to have you here.

You are in the right place to meet CMP people from all over the world.

Love your pictures of your C8A. Just fantastic.

Please share more with us.

Keith

Originally Posted by benbfkt

Hello everyone

I'm french and the dear owner of à C8. Someone meet in June in Normandy tell me good things about this forum.

Some pics on normandy road.

I'm member of maple-leaf / souvenir canadien. This is a french association based in Normandy.

I'm looking for informations about my C8 and want to finish a better restoration.

thanks

Benoit

[serge]

Hello BENOIT

Your welcome on the site and you will be the second french collector (after me). To day I am recording the CMP collector in FRANCE and sadly we are not very numerous

Regards Serge (owner of FORD CANADA F60L)

[Phil Waterman]

Hi From the USA

Glad to hear another HUP has been restored, and is being driven and enjoyed.

I have enjoyed driving a HUP for the last 30 years, hope you enjoy yours for as long.

Cheers Phil

[Adame]

Hi From Canada.

Your truck looks great welcome to the MLU.

Cheers
Adam

[NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)]

Hi Benoit,
Nice to see order fan of CMP
From Acadian cousin

Bienvenue Benoit,
Bien content d'avoir d'autre amateur de CMP
D'un cousin Acadian

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

Salut Benoit, tu es au bon site pour les informations sur les CMP C8.
Gilles

[benbfkt]

Thanks

I want know what exact model is ly C8 and where i can find documentation.

[Ganmain Tony]

Bonjour Benoit or G'day from Ganmain Australia!!

Welcome to MLU. Ive only been on this site for a couple of weeks and already have had some fantastic help from the fellah's on this site so I'm sure any questions you have will be answered in detail!!

The photo's you have sent through appear to have spectactular countryside in them. Can you tell me where they are taken?? Ive never been to Europe so would appreciate the guidance.

Enjoy the site - what you put into it is what you get out of it. There are some fantastic (and very funny) people in here.

[benbfkt]

Hello Tony

Photo are in Normandy, of course ;-) mostly during the last 6 june. We have made a canadian's camp à Putot en bessin. We are reenacting the winnipeg rifle regiment.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by benbfkt

Hello Tony

Photo are in Normandy, of course ;-) mostly during the last 6 june. We have made a canadian's camp à Putot en bessin. We are reenacting the winnipeg rifle regiment.

Benny..
Welcome aboard..
You may enjoy some of our French Canadian web sites for our French speaking regiments..
http://www.r22er.com/
You can join us anytime...You would look great as a "Van Doo"...
But the Winnipeg Rifles are a great and honourable regiment..
Here is another..
We joke sometimes about this regiment and call it
!2th Canadian RUBBER BOOT COMPANY...

The 12e Régiment blindé du Canada (12th Armoured Regiment of Canada) is a Canadian Forces armoured regiment based in CFB Valcartier, on the outskirts of Quebec City. The regiment has both Regular Force and Primary Reserve components.

The 12e Régiment blindé du Canada's abbreviation is 12e RBC. Both the regular and militia regiments serve mainly in the armoured reconnaissance role but a squadron of tanks is now being formed out of Valcartier.

But their battle honours are nothing to joke about..a great regiment..getting tanks shortly..

Battle honours

The Great War: Amiens1, Sibérie 1918-19

The Second World War: Débarquement en Sicile, Grammichele, Piazza Armerina, Valguarnera, Agira, Adrano, Vallée du Troina, Sicile 1943, Termoli, Le Ravin, Ortona, Cassino II, Ligne Gustav, Vallée du Liri, Ligne Hitler, Ligne Trasimene, Arezzo, L'Avance à Florence, Monte La Pieve, Monte Spaduro, Italie 1943–1945], Apeldoorn, Nord-Ouest de L'Europe 1945

1. awarded for service of 178th (Canadien-Français) Battalion, CEF.

Its origins are in The Three Rivers Regiment, a militia (Reserve Force) regiment based in Trois-Rivières, a town halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. Originally formed in 1871 as the 178th provisional battalion of Infantry and after many name changes, became the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada in 1968. This was a new Regular Force regiment which was created in Valcartier, while a militia unit was left in Trois-Rivières under the name 12e Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice). The number in the regimental title commemorates The Three Rivers Regiment's order of battle during the Second World War: 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Three Rivers Regiment). The Canadian Army traditionally avoided having city or region names in the titles of its Regular Force regiments; this was likely the reason for the 1960s name change.

Anyway you can get manuals for your truck from here..


http://www.dana-nield.com/d32/Defaul....com/d32/blair

Here are the ones to get..


#3
300+ pages
MB-C2 Maintenance Manual, for GM CMP vehicles. 15 cwt 4x2, 15 cwt. 4x4, 30 cwt 4x4, 3 ton 4x4 HU 4x4, F.A.T. 4x4.
Sept. 1943

#3A
300+ pages
GM Service Bulletins Updates for MB-C2 (May-November 1943)
These bulletins were issued to the field maintenance shops for upgrades to the CMP vehicles.
Many procedures in the bulletins and additions did not make the maintenance manuals.





#5
218 pages
C8A-04 CHEV. ILLUST. SPARE PARTS LIST FOR HEAVY UTILITY 4x4 C/W PERSONNEL BODY (INC. C8A-01, C8A-02, C8A-03, & C8A-04)
June 1945

Contact Grant Bowker through the web site...
He is the "New " Mr.Manual...
I'm the old..original model..
Again ..welcome to MLU..The best web site for CMPS and no offense to Rod Diery or Keith Webb..
They are 1St and 1/2 and 1St and 3/4 ers..
Alex Blair..
Mr.Manual(Ret.)

[Keith Orpin]

Hi Benny,
Good to see another CMP out enjoying the Normandy area,, I do like the C8 ! Attached picture of 4 CMP's taken at the Longues gun battery. First one is Jim sewell's from down under, 2 nd one is my C30 LAAT from England, I'm not sure who owned the other two, but I think they are from Holland. We drove though Port en Bassin most days during that first week in June,(mainly jeeps and GMC's), still an absolutely brilliant week.
Enjoy the wonderful world of CMP collectors !
Regards
Keith

[benbfkt]

thanks for all et spécialement Alex pour le lien avec les manuels