Ford/Marmon-Herrington MGT's

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I am not so sure Hanno...the big problem with the UK, Australia and NZ were that they had no US dollars, Australia particularly so. I cannot speak for the Dominion of South Africa but I would guess that they were in the same boat. Thus reliance had to be made on the acceptance by Canada of Sterling and those currencies allied to Sterling, e.g. Australian and New Zealand Pounds meant that Canadian supply was preferred.

I am pretty certain that Chrysler in Detroit who were not party to the CMP development went along with this currency exchange problem and that some trucks ordered through Chrysler Export in Detroit were partly built in Detroit and then railed across the river to Windsor and thus became 'Canadian'. GM used to channel all funds through New York in US dollars from wherever in the world and so it made no difference to them whether payment was made in Ottawa or NYC because the Corporation ended up with US dollars. As Canadian Traction was a subidiary of Marmon-Herrington I see no reason why exports were made from Windsor albeit exported as components from the US headquarters.