Canadian Publications on the M38A1 CDN

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The Cdn2 maint manual may not originally have had a CFP number. Many of the tech manuals in the late 60s/early 70s were just identified by the NSN. In the late 70s we went to the NDID system of numbers, at which time a Jeep parts manual would have been something like C30-100-000/MY001.

The use of NSN for pubs can be seen if you look at the Cdn 2 or Cdn 3 data plate sets. All the manuals are shown simply by their NSNs. The first manuals for the M38s would have been the US manuals, with the exception of the operators manual, which was a Canadianized version of the US publication.

Also, there was a NSN'd manual for the M38 and the M38A1. When a bunch of amendments were added the NSN was changed, more amendments, the NSN changed again. Then when the Cdn 2 supplement was added, the NSN changed again. Finally, the Cdn3 amendments were added to the same book, and the NSN was changed once again. If you were not careful, you could order M38 parts when you meant to order parts for a Cdn3. This was a large book, with 626 pages before all the amendments were added.

Below on pic 1: from publications data plate Cdn2
pic 2: publications plate Cdn 3
pic 3 Publications plate M38Cdn