Sale of CMPs
I would be very interested to find out if the British Ministry of Supply sold suplus CMPs to NATO countries including Norway, say post-1948. I know that the M of S had a contract with companies such as Lincoln Cars Limited the Ford subsidiary, who refurbished Ford V-8s until around 1951 for further use in Carriers, marine cratf, generators, etc. and presumably Ford trucks. A clue is that GM LImited in Southampton had a contract with the Ministry to refurbish military style oil bath air cleaners until around 1954, possibly later. These would probably have been AC items.
Another company that was involved with military Ford V-8s was Sydney Allard's Adlards Limited. That is how Mr Allard ended up with ex-military V-8s that he installed in Allard cars. I can imagine that the M of S contracted to refurbish CMPs which were then sold to NATO countries, Switzerland, S America et al.
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04-10-04, 11:52
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