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24-11-12, 16:50
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Well, the NSN is Canadian, but often we used Canadian NSNs even for US trucks, likely to cover for any changes or modifications we made.
I'll post the line truck question on the steel soldiers website, where membership is predominately US. 
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24-11-12, 17:17
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2½ Ton Series
The Canadian 2½ ton series of vehicles were based on US designs. In US service the M135 was pretty short-lived being replaced by the M35 Reo series. One distinguishing feature with the US M135s is that they were soft-top where as the M135CDN was a hard-top.
I believe some of the early trials vehicles used by Canada were of US manufacture and were used alongside the Canadian manufactured vehicles. I would be interested to know what the CFR was of the XM222. I think the line vehicle you are talking about is the M207CDN Signal Line Maintenance Body and Equipment ECC 124902 of which only 18 were manufactured.
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24-11-12, 18:44
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Interesting Ed, where do you get the source of 18 made?
The "Cdn Army Catalogue of Ordnance stores: Generic listing of vehicle and tracked equipments..." lists both M207 chassis (ecc 124902) and M133 chassis (ECC124901) being used for the (line) maintenance truck. It only shows a drawing of the M207 chassis version though. This body is mounted on a M135. I suspect this truck was one of the early releases in the 70s, since it was not fitted with the west coast mirrors, although it does have a few peculiarities like green top clearance lights on the cab, and large yellow lenses on the SMP front signal lamp housings in the grill.
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24-11-12, 19:38
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M207 Signal Line Maintenance Body
The information came from a 1971 dated Data Summary for this vehicle.
The chassis was M207 from 1954 and 1955 and the specialist bodies were manufactured in 1957 and 1962. The vehicle had a special break kit in order to tow the 4 Ton Pole and Cable Reel Trailer ECC 150109. ED
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24-11-12, 19:57
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This body was built around 58 or 59 if I recall correctly. I'll have to get more photos of it all. It also has the electric brake rheostat on the steering column.
An interesting truck, but not of any interest to me, other than to rob it for parts. Unfortunately, I am starting to recognise my mortality, and have been dragging this stuff home faster than I can restore it. The justification of "last one" is starting to wear thin.
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24-11-12, 20:51
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Rob, do you know that Hobean from Demaine, Sask? He had truck loads of rebuilt assemblies for those trucks. Trannies, rear ends, winches, etc)
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