Door Markings

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

It turns out that I have data namely serials and plate details off seven Contract [CD] LV 308 trucks, although LV59 was the first Canadian contract then 308 and then 309. What's the Engine # please? # FR3890000 or thereabouts I think.

The only census numbers I have are CZ4229130, which would have been an overseas delivered truck, using the British War Office style and Canadian-allocated number series, and # 2844515234 ENGINE # FR3838709 but the slightly later Contract L.V.309 manufactured AUGUST 14 1942 [C-HU-441-M-WIRE1] Census # Z 65-479...your revealed # Z 58-700 therefore looks as though it was a Canadian DOMESTIC census number. I wonder if 42-723 may however be the ORIGINAL Canadian DND number...I have been looking up my records and wonder if it was originally stencilled:

RCASC
V
Z 42-1-723
which was in the original DND pre-war style for Canadian vehicles that carried on into at least 1942. I am not sure whether by '42 the middle "-1-" had been deleted but it was used from 1935 to 1940 at least. Perhaps someone else can clarify if that "-1-" would have been in the number or not. Perhaps the truck was renumbered when rebuilt for further service with the RCEME?

NOTE: I have looked at the photo again and there does not appear to be room for an intermediate "-1-" and I therefore suggest that the original DND number was Z 42-723, because it was allocated in 1942 as # 722nd, and then was renumbered later. I assume that the two first digits were not the Calendar Year or were there still HUPs in service rebuilt for further service in Canada in 1958 and 1965?