Chevrolet Truck 'Lend Lease' etc

[mlombard]

Hi

Ok I'll admit I am now one slightly confused individual, I'm trying to sort out the model designations on the 1940's Chevrolet trucks, not not the CMP 'Blitz's, the ordinary ones.

The two documents I have in front of me, one entitled:

Chevrolet and GMC Truck Parts Catalogue 1941-1955 talks of series 11 to 18 and 91 to 98

and the other

D.M.E. Technical Instruction M.V. Maintenance,, Instruction no. C.10-14,, dated August 1943 states Standard Conventional Pattern Vehicles, Chevrolet and GMC states Models 1300 to 1600 and Models 9300 to 9600

So this makes some sense to me, in militarising these vehicles they added two zeros to the model specification.

However this then starts to get confusing when I look at this webpage (see http://www.trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=1131 ).

It seems however also that the model/series numbers carried on each year,, but that each year the alphabet prefix would change.

Am I right.

Matt