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Well, I made it out to the Drumheller badlands and picked up the Cab 12 yesterday. It was a 450 mile round trip with our tandem grain truck and the 425 hp Cat just burned 40 gallons of diesel. I've driven pickups that got less mileage than that.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2 
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27-08-08, 04:53
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27-08-08, 05:19
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I knew I should have recognized that cowboy that was wading his horse across the river!!!
Those badlands on the Red Deer River get quite a bit more pronounced about 30 miles downstream at Dinosaur Provincial Park. I know of one CMP that got taken down near the river in that rugged country many years ago and couldn't make it out again. I haven't gone in to check it out yet but that would be an adventure by itself. Maybe it could be towed onto the river ice in the winter? HMMM.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2
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27-08-08, 22:49
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That ain't John Wayne fordin' that river... he ain't tough enough to handle our winters let alone our wimmen! That there is Dudley Dooright of the Royal Canadian Mounties! He's trackin' CMP rustlers!
 I always enjoyed visiting the badlands... some of the most interesting geography in the world. Nice acquisitions, Cletrac. You're building an excellent reference collection of early CMPs!  Mike 
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27-09-08, 03:28
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I had some business to attend to today so I took some back roads for 150 miles and came up with these two 60 cwt boxes. I knew the owner but he's dead now so I'll have to see who to ask about them. The data plate is off the rough one with no wheel wells but the one with wells is in fairly decent shape. Both have endgates albeit with holes cut in them to unload grain.
The other truck is a Morris Commercial ECV but what year? Would the motor in it be the same as the military trucks? The whole drive train is there.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2 Last edited by cletrac (RIP); 27-09-08 at 04:18.
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27-09-08, 06:05
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That Morris would be a rarity in Canada ... the CV range was released in late 1937 .. production was curtailed by WW2 but was started again on a limited basis for essential civilian services...Production continued on and after the war - to around 1952. The pre-war versions were either 6 cyl. or 4 cyl. Yep, motor was similar to the military 6 OH engine .. I have a 1937 OE civilian motor here ... water pump in head and dome top pistons. I have a copy of Harry Edwards' book on Morris Commercial Mike
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1940 cab 11 C8 1940 Morris-Commercial PU 1941 Morris-Commercial CS8 1940 Chev. 15cwt GS Van ( Aust.) 1942-45 Jeep salad Last edited by Mike K; 27-09-08 at 06:20.
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29-10-08, 03:57
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I found a C60L the other day but the owner is just using the chassis and he put a 6.2 litre GM diesel in it. I gave him $20 for the motor and trans he pulled out. It's a 261 Pontiac that isn't seized and it's hooked to the rhd bellhousing and military transmission. I needed the bellhousing for that C15A I hauled home this summer. I have a friend that's going to haul the cab home for me the next time he's headed this way. It's a 1944 with round gauges and no roof hatch. The data plates are on the dash but the pix I took didn't turn out except the one saying it's a GS version. I'll post a better pic of the data plate at a future date. That's quite the fifth wheel hookup a previous owner installed.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2
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