Help on m38 & m38a1cdn info needed

[Frank]

Thank you for the information. I just started to understand the iltis CFR. Know with my
M38's /A1 SN/CFR I have found very difficult finding info on them. My concern with no
history that, 2 M38s I have that are missing the data plates and were they could be.
Anyway I will strip the paint away and let you know what I find. But I guess on the reproduction M38 Data Plates I will have to stamp whats on my Ownership....before they
go on the road..
Thanks again
Frank

[BCA]

Rob,
Thanks for the explanation of the discrepancies of M100CDN 1/4-ton trailer CFR numbers. I always wondered why the stamped CFR numbers on numerous of the M100 trailers do not match the "paperwork" CFR number. I used to document all the CFR/serial numbers of trailer I saw at auctions and of the 40 or so trailers I've bought over the years at government auctions.
... Brian

[rob love]

Brian
I am always happy to share some of my UFI. Glad someone else has noticed this same anomaly. Back in those days, we used to bulk report on the trailers. That is, we would have one work order for many trailers, and the parts and labor costs were just all lumped together. As a result, we really did not track the serial numbers on trailers. Ottawa did, but I suspect that when the time came to go from paper tracking to computer tracking, trailer CFRs were just taken at face value.

I remember in Moose Jaw doing the final disposal inspection on a car before we were sending it down to auction. I checked the serial number in the windshield and it was not correct for the CFR. Turns out the plates had been incorrectly installed on a identical pair of vehicles 5 years earlier, we had already sold the other car the year before, and I was the first person to actually compare the serial numbers in all those years. Turned out our own wrecker was the same way, with it's twin wrecker in cold lake having had their CFRs switched at birth. Fact is, we work by the CFRs in the army, and things like the serial numbers really didn't concern us that much. But to whoever bought the car from us, if anyone would go to verify their serials, would then have a bit of a headache.