War Dept. numbers

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Ian Grieve

I have copies of handwritten Contract Cards for SM2621 and SM2820 from The Tank Museum in 1998. The numbers in Chilwell are certainly different to those on Card SM2820, ie P5219692 - P5219876. Another mystery!!

Ian,

Solved the mystery.....I was looking this up in one Rob van Meel's copies of the Chilwell records. I usually use the one with census numbers in order, but this time looked it up in another copy laid out in groups of manufacturers........and found a mistake.

You are right, it is 5219692 - 5219876. Just as a matter of interest as you are in to GPA amphibs, the following census numbers are for Trailer 2 wheel, Amphibian and made by Willys under Contract no. SM2932, census no's X5219877 - 5219880. I had never come across this before, do you know anything about it?

Richard