HUPs IN STRANGE PLACES

[Phil Waterman]

Originally posted by RHClarke
Phil,

Would you mind posting the photo of CMPs (with HUPs leading) to this thread?

RHC

Here it is with link http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/C...20Columbia.htm for the rest.

[Stew Robertson]

Does anyone know who owned this one
It was taken in the early eighties at a meet at Milton Ont.
Stew

[Brian Gough]

Stew,

that was Mel Norwick's HUP, from Whitby. The picture was taken at an OMVA meet, I think it was in the late 1980s, maybe even 1990.

The HUP was sold last year and I don't know where it went - possibly out of the country.

Brian

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Brian Gough

Stew, that was Mel Norwick's HUP, from Whitby. The picture was taken at an OMVA meet, I think it was in the late 1980s, maybe even 1990. The HUP was sold last year and I don't know where it went - possibly out of the country. Brian

Mel's HUP got a quick once over and was sent to Oman as part of the Sultanate of Oman's 40th Anniversary celebration. Apparently, 40 years ago the present Sultan rode into his capital city in a HUP to take power from his father.

To celebrate this anniversary he spared little expense to get a HUP to lead the parade. The last I heard was that the truck is now in a museum. Nice videos on Youtube of the celebrations, but no shots of the HUP.

[Brian Gough]

Rob,

Thanks for the update on the whereabouts of Mel's HUP. Definitely this is properly in your thread of "HUPs in Strange Places"

Brian

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Rob

You have been a busy web digger to have dug out:
Another Interesting HUP Related Story
Strange Online HUP Reference
HUP with Lily Marlene Connection

I had not looked at Beckwith's BBC site in a while and didn't realize he had put a link in, I'll have to revamp my BBC pages with a better back link to his site.

Having read Stursberg's book I was surprised that I had never seen the story about Lili Marlene again I'll have to update my pages about the CBC to link that story into the loop. There are several good recordings of Lili Marlene on the web both in German and English, in either language it is haunting.

Interesting how a picture of a HUP at a event leads to the story of a HUP travels back to the Middle East.

I do like MLU


Cheers and thanks Phil

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Rob, You have been a busy web digger ... I do like MLU. Cheers and thanks Phil

Hi Phil,

Yes, this is the by product of being unemployed. I am working on a small personal project and during down times, I have been using different search engines and index words for online searches. I also have the time to reflect on some of the goings on in the past few years here at home, the barn and while on the road. This trip down memory lane has cued me for more search variables.

Hello Haridimos,

I can tell you are a Heavy Utility man - your name even starts with an "H"... I will be searching for a photo of Mel's HUP in Oman. You never can tell what will show up online.

More later.

[Haridimos]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Mel's HUP got a quick once over and was sent to Oman as part of the Sultanate of Oman's 40th Anniversary celebration. ................ The last I heard was that the truck is now in a museum..

Could it be at the Sultan`s Armed Forces Museum at Muscat? A travel corespondence and a fine photo coverage of the excibits of that Museum, was at the HMVForum HERE but whithout photo of Mel's HUP..

[David Dunlop]

Here are a couple of photos of a British Contract 1C11 bodied HUP built in late August 1945 that went from GM storage in Oshawa after the war to MacDonald Manitoba for disposal. Ended up as a mobile field office for a construction company, while two of it's sister's ended up in the Weyburn, Saskatchewan area.

Anyone recognize it?


David

[RHClarke]

If the painted sign on the side of the truck says "Dominion Construction", then I can say that I do recognize it. It now resides in Hammond.

[David Dunlop]

I thought it looked familiar on your avitar and Mike C. mentioned to me a few years ago it had found a good home.

Peter Ford had traced the history of it for me one summer when he was rummaging in the Archives in Ottawa and had also tracked down the other two from the same contract.

Cheers,


David

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

I thought it looked familiar on your avitar and Mike C. mentioned to me a few years ago it had found a good home.

Peter Ford had traced the history of it for me one summer when he was rummaging in the Archives in Ottawa and had also tracked down the other two from the same contract.

Cheers,


David

David, I would be very interested in getting hi-res versions of your photos and any of the info that Mr Ford obtained in his research of these trucks. If you can provide such, I will send my email address.

Cheers,

HUP Owner In a Strange Place (@the mudder-in-laws)

[David Dunlop]

Sadly, those two photos are old Polaroids circa 1978 or so and the resolution sucks on them. I might, however, have some 35mm photos tucked away in which the HUP is a background piece for other vehicles. I will check and see if there is anything useful on them for you and let you know.

Peter had been doing his usual searches at PAC for anything useful on CMP production in particular and wartime Canadian production in general, when he stumbled across some documents related to the British Government's authorization to Canada at the end of the war to dispose of contracts it no longer needed, or could afford to pay for and the contract covering that HUP came up in the documents. Peter recognized it because he had visited and seen the HUP on his way down to Ottawa.

It was unclear if the order had been completed for the vehicles or not, but Canada apparently agreed to dispose of the vehicles that were being held at GM. I assume GM would have rec'd some or all of the money earned by sale. From what Peter could figure out, the vehicles were batched out to several depots across Canada. Dominion Construction purchased the one I ended up with from MacDonald. Two others went from MacDonald to the Weyburn area in Saskatchewan. The kids of one farmer who bought one, took it for a joyride one night shortly after he bought it. They stalled it on a railway crossing and it got whacked by a freight when the kids went back to get help to push it. The other one, Peter eventually found in another farm and was able to buy a door and the cab partition assembly from him, as I was in need of replacements for both items.

A chap in South Winnipeg eventually bought the HUP from Dominion. He ran a machine shop and I could see the truck for several years from our apartment complex. Eventually went to see it and found it was for sale. When I first saw it up close, it still had the spare mounted, though it seemed a bit smaller than the wheels it was running on, and the headlamps were alive and well. It ran well and the brakes were soft but did work. When I went back to actually buy it about a week later, the owner had it locked in his shop because somebody had stolen the spare and the headlamp assemblies. About three weeks after that, somebody nicked the canvas top assembly off my M38Cdn while it was parked at our apt.

That's about all I know on the HUP. Will let you know what I find in the way of other photos.

David

[RHClarke]

David, I kept the Dominion Construction panel as momento - most of the side panels had to be replaced due to damage/ rust issues and to allow me to get at the backside of the support ribs.

Once again, MLU proves itself to be a valuable source of CMP information!