Sixty-seven pattern Jeep progress log

[rob love]

You can do a lot better than that on the tires if you bring them across from the US yourself. Wallace Wade or Coker tire will sell you Firestone NDTs for under $100 each. If you can get down to the US to either a UPS store or to a Border parcel service, the shipping from either isn't that terrible.

If you ever made it to a MVPA convention, Wallace Wade brings them by the stack to the convention, and charges his catalog price on them. They were about $80 each just a year or two ago.

Are you sure about that CFR 70-88888? More likely it would have been 70 (or 71) -08888. The M38A1Cdn3 ran from CFR 08500 or thereabouts and ran just across the 09000 numbers.

Servicepub
I see your Jeep used to be fitted with the GPMG mount. There are still a few of these mounts left at the local scrapyard if you feel the need to have a M1919 with you. There are some of the wire cutter bars as well, but they are not economically feasable to ship.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Yeah...08888 sounds more like it. JP=Jim Price?

[maple_leaf_eh]

JP Morgan is a now retired Reservist from that unit. I think he claims to have that plate in his garage ... but that might be the cough medicine talking.

[rob love]

The only reason that the CFR could be out of series like that is if a new CFR was assigned. When a license plate was lost or stolen, the CFR was supposed to be replaced with a new one. The new number would be whatever CFR was due to be issued next from the puzzle palaces higher up. Of course, this caused a great deal of confusion on the mechanic side of the world, and I am sure it likely caused confusion on the logistics side as well.

Our tool cribs used to have the blank plates, the numbers, and the little maple leafs, so we just made replacement plates of the original CFR number,and nobody higher up ever had to know.

Clive, your number also appears to be a bit out. If your truck is a Cdn2 (as the hubcaps on the back axle indicate), and the CFR is 07824, then it should have been preceded by either a 67 or a 68.

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Clive, your number also appears to be a bit out. If your truck is a Cdn2 (as the hubcaps on the back axle indicate), and the CFR is 07824, then it should have been preceded by either a 67 or a 68.

Rob,
I should not have included the pre-fix numbers. My M38A1 has adhesive numbers on the dash (printed over with at least three coats of paint) but does not include the prefix. and my use of the "70-" was an assumption.
As the date of manufacture was Nov 1967 can I assume (there I go again) that the CFR should be 67 - xxxxxx?
I may be able to source a pair of DND plates but can anyone tell me where to source the numbers?

[rob love]

In all likelihood the prefix on yours will be 67, but being so close to the end of the year it may also be 68. Somewhere in my mess of papers I think I have some of the old Crown Assets sales sheets which might give a breaking point for the 67/68 prefix. I believe the prefix had more to do with when the vehicle was taken in to service than the year it was built. I had seen commercial vehicles with the next year prefix assigned to them; not often but it did exist.

I have seen numbers very similar to that used on the plates available at various hardware stores.

[servicepub (RIP)]

Thanks to BB3 I had a chance to see my M38A1 in detail. The CFR number I previously quoted is on the windshield frame, however, this is a replacement and the jeep's actual CFR is 67-07800. These numbers can be seen on the rigth side sill.
Jeep is scheduled to go to Don Dingwall's for some work.