Vehicle ID Please

[Ed Storey]

Originally Posted by rob love

The cargo box on it is different from any that I have seen. It is missing the angular re-enforcement over the wheel wells. It also seems to have a straight up exhaust stack, missing the curve on the top of the Cdn trucks. I wonder if this was an early purchase from US stocks?
It also has some funny mirrors, but likely a locally sourced improvement over the little 5" round mirrors that came standard on those trucks.

I don't know of any US manufactured M135s that were used by Canada other than the ones issued to our forces in Korea and Japan. As far as I know, unlike the M62 Wreckers and M38A1 Jeeps used in Korea, the M135s were not shipped back to Canada as there was already enough domestic production to fill our needs. I suspect therefore that the RCAF M135CDN is an early Canadian production model.