M-38 CDN (history)

[rob love]

Originally Posted by BCA

4. At least three examples have Vehicle Repair Data Plates dated 1-59 or 4-59 from "23 BW". I do not know where 23 Base Workshop was located.
Brian

23 Base Workshop was a joint British/Canadian workshop in Germany. They would do assembly line rebuilds on the various fleets of vehicles. There is an article about it in an old EME digest here:
http://www.emebranchgem.ca/CMFiles/Journal/2_2008_e.pdf

[BCA]

Great information on 23 Base Workshop. Photos of 3 M38's in Germany in 1961 submitted to CMP Magazine by Steve Hawken show Canadian M38's with 51-33xxx CFR numbers which I strongly suspect were from the first batch of Canadian M38's made by Willys and delivered to Canada in 1951, prior to the Ford production. Maybe an unusual number of the early Willys M38's ended up in Germany?

[rob love]

We usually sent the new equipment to Germany before equipping the units back home. At least that was the case in the 70s and 80s.

[Comox Air Force Museum]

Folks, just for your info I got this from a visit to the Ford plant in Oakville just before I moved out west.

M38A1
Build dates 11-28-52 to 3-24-53
Serial numbers 200041 to 200750
for a total of 709 units
Truck were all delivered to 27 ORD in London Ontario.


You might note that the start date for the 38A1 is the day after the date Brian posted as the end date for the M38 11-27-52 .
Rob