War Dept. numbers

[david moore]

Richard
Following up on your reply to Cletrac - can you allocate a vehicle to L 4203472 forgetting the "C" prefix for the moment?
I am trying to establish how the numbers given to vehicles in Canadian units were allocated.

I assume that the whole 42xxxxx block was reserved for Canadian soft skins - but were they allocated by builder's contract as per the UK-built vehicles? Were these Canadian government or British government contracts? If the latter, then you should be able to find the contract? Or were they simply allocated their numbers by some quartermaster organisation as they arrived from N.America ( I have yet to find photo evidence of a single British-built softskin with a C prefix i.e. CH, CM, CL or CZ. Plenty of British-built CT's, CF's and CC's mind. No CA at all so far either!)

Now waiting for the evidence to prove me wrong!

David Moore