M809 5-ton in Canadian service

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I received the following request at my Service Publications e-mail address but cannot assist. Can anybody provide insight?

My name is Carl Schulze and I am currently working on a book on the U.S. manufactured M809 5-ton 6x6 Truck Series. However, during my research I came across pictures of M809 trucks in service with the Royal Canadian Army based in Germany. The pictures show cargo trucks, tractor trucks, wreckers and dump trucks. Believe it or not further investigation remained futile and I was not able to find any facts about the trucks. You are one of my last possibilities to learn a little bit more.


Do you have any information at hand. Were the trucks given a special designation or did they run under the U.S. numbers (M813/M814/M816 and so on). The bonnet differs from that of the U.S. vehicles, did the Canadian ones have a different engine fitted? Where they manufactured in Canada under license or bought from the U.S.?