Ford CMP door markings

[Jason Ginn]

The F60 near Ottawa in this thread was also issued to the A19 CASCTC in Borden. It is interesting that the registration numbers "64-613" are so close to your truck!

One other A19 CASCTC truck is listed in the INFOEX. It is a F15a GS-2 with serial number 118290. The owner was listed as Doug Weatherston.

[derk derin]

It just occured to me that we are talking about a CMP being in service still in 1964.Would they have been using CMP's that late as the M135 Deuce would have surely replaced any CMP's in service by then?

I know Doug and will have to ask him about his truck.

Thanks for all your help.Will post pictures soon!
Derk.

[Grant Bowker]

There were a very few CMPs in use by the National Research Council and other government departments around Ottawa up to 1970ish (after the change in departmental naming to xxx Canada instead of Department of xxx). The last ones in mmilitary service wer elikely to have been those with specialist bodies such as workshops. I can't remember what Andre Gibeault told me the release date of his RCAF workshop truck was (from North Bay) but remember thinking it was late.

[rob love]

The 64 in the door number has no relation to the year. That style of numbering replaced the earlier style of (ie 41-1-1083. In the case of that style of number, the 41 reflects the year the number was assigned to the truck (usually also the year of manufacture, but not always.)

From what I have seen in war diaries, the earlier door numbers seem to have been assigned in batches in relation to the units that held the vehicles, regardless of the vehicle type. A station wagon could have the next sequential number to a run of F15s, and an artillery tractor could be the next sequentially.

The latest CMP I have heard of was the KL welding lorry with the Camp Borden CE section. If I recall correctly it was in service until 1974. Even later, however, was a CMP 2 wheel compressor trailer hiding in the compound in Flin Flon Manitoba. We would still do annual inspections on it until it was released from service in 1987. I am now the present owner of that one.