Rootes Wartime Orders & Deliveries

[Bill Kreiner]

Originally Posted by bill m

Hello Bill,
is there any material existing on the Rootes group rebuilding US equipment postwar for military assistance programs?
cheers
Bill.

Hi, Bill:

I don't know of anything offhand, but will enquire next time I have contact with CTM, which will be when Ms. Hazlehurst returns from maternity leave. With them it's hit or miss. For example, they have Volume 2 of the War History ledger, but not Volume 1. They hold the chassis records for Sunbeam-Talbot and Humber from 1937 to 1948 (which I want copies of), but not for the later or earlier models, and have nothing at all for Hillman other than what's in Vol. 2 of the War History.

[bill m]

Thank you gentlemen,
Richard, yes I remember this being discussed a few years ago and that as the reason I am asking.
I have had a previous interest in the Rootes group and am curious as to the group's activities with wartime and postwar contracts.
cheers
Bill.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by bill m

Thank you gentlemen,
Richard, yes I remember this being discussed a few years ago and that as the reason I am asking.
I have had a previous interest in the Rootes group and am curious as to the group's activities with wartime and postwar contracts.
cheers
Bill.

Hi Bill,
I have information on wartime contracts, but nothing post 1945.

Incidentally, welcome to the forum, I was down your way in March, at Pt. Lonsdale, a lovely area.

regards, Richard