M-38 CDN (history)

[BCA]

An M38 CDN was reported years ago by Colin Stevens: 52-32008 and he said there was a photo of it on a 1971 army exercise. He did not report a Ford serial number or date of delivery. Your F-102083 serial with a date of 11-18-52 is consistent with the CFR 52-32008 so the mystery is why someone put a different stencilled CFR on the vehicle. So far I have no reported sightings of an M38 CDN with a stamped CFR number 52-31293. The usual caveat: there is no direct correlation between CFR sequences and Ford serial sequences although there are broad trends. I'm sure you can reach Colin through the Western Command web site; he may have further info. ……… Brian

[BCA]

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Stephen: I see this was your first post! So welcome to MLU.

[rob love]

I don't want to sway this discussion from the excellent information on the M38 and M38A1 serial numbers, production numbers and CAR (CFR) numbers, but I wanted to cross post this list regarding assignment of CAR numbers to various artillery dated October of 51. Note that blocks of CAR numbers from 30001 to 30200, 31001 to 31200, 31400 to 31600 (penned in) and 32001 to 32010 were meant to be assigned to 3.7AA guns with various mountings. I suspect these blocks are a bit wider than the number of guns in service at the time, but it may explain why there could be some gaps in the CFR blocks. It is apparent from some posts in this thread that the M38 CFRs overlapped into these blocks.

[Stephen Rainforth]

Thanks I will
Steve

[John P]

This might have been already mentioned here before but how many M38 CDN's were actully made during the production run in Windsor and what are the numbers for surviving units during and after the Korean war?

[Eric B]

Hello

NO M38's were sent to Korea. We shipped WW2 vintage Jeeps there. Some of these we had to buy from the US as we did not have enough of our own to sent without depleting resources in Canada. Some WW2 CDN contracts were shipped with these as well as trailers.

We did not ship any of the CDN M38's there, but bought from US production directly the M38A1. These we shipped back when the troops came back. The WW2 vintage trailers and jeeps were turned into US supply depots.

Thanks

Eric

[Don Dingwall]

Sorry Eric but you need to read my book on Korea to see exactly what we took and brought back. It's all there.

Cheers
Don

[John P]

Are their any production figures and history for the M-37 CDN?

[Eric B]

Hello Don

Read the book plus I have your archive files on the jeeps.

Great read.

Thanks

Eric