Data plate id help..

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The plate indicates it was a 1941 MODEL Chevrolet Gun Tractor, Model 8441, and the engine number is a WR-prefixed 1941 one. The sequential number suggests that it is after the 1940/41 "Allligator hood" introduction and therefore I suspected it was a # 12 Cab version. I also know of # 1844010482, but there is then a large gap until the next known CGT (which by then used XR-prefixed engines).

The engine number is similar to one in a 1940 Model CMP, as the Canadian 1940 orders carried on into 1941 Calendar Year and had "0" year prefixes accordingly. However that body number 17 suggests that this is a very early CGT, and possibly to British order S/M 2020 and assembled by General Motors Limited at Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Lancashire in late spring/early summer of 1941. I have photos of two of the first CGTs assembled at Bamber Bridge and they were # 12 Cabs, assembled alongside # 11 Cabs.

The body would probably have been by Gotfredson Limited of Walkerville/Windsor, Ontario and would have had a plate stating this originally.

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