Vehicle Door Numbers Canada

[rob love]

A-19 will be the designation for the Canadian Army Service Corp Training Center that the truck belonged to. L is for Lorry, and the remainder is the DND number assigned to the truck.

The date on the steering box is a casting date. It may have been a while before that casting made it onto the truck, so that may not be the best way to date the vehicle. It is also possible the steering box got changed out at some point. However, since your truck has the holes for the bumper reflectors, and does not have the FORD script on the cowl, that date is possible.

[Gordon Yeo]

Here is a door number in the Chev 60 cwt that was a signals truck. What would the door numbers represent on this vehicle?

[servicepub (RIP)]

From the 1920s to approx 1942-43 the Canadian Army operated two parallel vehicle fleets. The first was managed by the Master General of Ordnance (MGO). These vehicles were issued to individual units/schools.
The second fleet was the RCASC fleet and consisted of vehicles operated solely by the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. These included staff cars, base maintenance vehicles, buses, specialty vehicles such as ploughs (plows) but not vehicles unique to a Corps (Engineers, Ordnance, etc.), transport and supply vehicles and others. RCASC vehicles were operated by RCASC personnel.
Clear as mud?

Clive

[Bob Carriere]

...must be getting dummer with old age....

..... or was it a ploy to Kornphuse the enemy ????

what is the differece between a RCASC truck picking up parts from a Railroad depot to a truck from the R. DE Chaud. picking up similar parts from the same RR depot...?

all these years in the Pubic Service should have thought me something...?

Bob C

[servicepub (RIP)]

Bob,
You should know better than to try to find logic in the Army!
Obviously there is no difference in the scenario you identify. However, in most cases it is the role of the RCASC to pick up parts from the RR station while the R de CHAUD vehicle was there to support unit training. This doesn't mean that the Chaud CO couldn't order his driver to do a pick up but if the goods were in the military supply system and had to go via the QM Stores prior to unit/individual issue then it is most likely an RCASC lorry that would be dispatched, by the QM, to pick up the goods.
To over simplify the difference between the two fleets, MGO vehicles were issued to units to provide support to the unit while RCASC vehicles were to provide support to the Army.

Clive

[Bob Carriere]

.....it's starting to make sense.....

I am leaning toward a not RCASC marking for my truck..... such as.....
R. DE Saleberrie (aka regiment de Hull) which was an armored corp. ...... will need to contact the archivist for the regiment to see what they were issued in 1940..... or even waht status it had in 1940.....

Bob C

[Bill Alexander]

Hi Bob, The R de Hull were converted to armour on April 1, 1946. They were organized as an infantry battalion and served as one during the Second World War, when mobilized on July 29, 1941.