C8A HUM census numbers?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Hanno, why do you say the Census number is British? There are several late war pictures of Canadian vehicles with census numbers starting with "59"....some with the "C" prefix, but a lot of them without.
The 59 range according to the Chilwell list is "Various allotted to middle east", but I think these were given to Canadian vehicles when they ran out of room in the 42....range.

Because the census number does not come from a range of numbers allocated to the Canadian Army Overseas - see post #12 above. So that means it was part of a block of census numbers assigned to British contracts. Now, we know that many vehicles acquired by the British government were allotted to Canadian and other allied armies. In that case vehicles from British contracts often got a “C” added, but many did not as this HUP shows.