Chevrolet Truck 'Lend Lease' etc

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by mlombard

Hi again Lionel

I've been trawling around the MLU site and following some of your earlier posts, so your vehicle is designated as a MCP or Modified Conventional Patten, is this the military designation of this model, further to this yours is a 1940 i.e what I'd call a wrap around grill where as the one I am looking at has what I believe to be called a waterfall grill, yours has dual rears where as this truck has singles (split rim type). So did the military not have a way of designating the lend lease Chev by different model but only by it being civilian or modified. in other word they didn't use the Chev designations by model, but only by size i.e. 1300 versus say 9300 series.

Regards

Matt

Hello Matt,

To risk the wrath of more informed members my understanding is the military - possibly Australian formed MCP Modified Civilian Pattern to distinguish them from Canadian Military Pattern vehicles (CMPs).

My grille was only a two year run 1939 and 1940. It is just a rectangle shape made up of horizontal bars. Whereas the 1941 had the big chrome "smile" that was a combination of vertical and horizontal bars.

My truck has dual rear wheels however it is only a single speed differential.

Other members more knowledgeable than me can fill out the model designation details regarding Lend Lease and Australian assembled. The Australian War Memorial does include Chevrolet (Holden) in some of their photographs' captions.

The other point of complication is the inclusion of more heavy duty GMC and Maple Leaf General Motors stable mates.

Kind Regards
Lionel