Chevrolet Truck 'Lend Lease' etc

[mlombard]

Hi Mike, Lionel et al

Interesting discussion here. So I understand the MCP designation is the military 'catch all' to cover these types of vehicle and differentiate them from the 'Blitz' or CMP vehicles.

As you say the military (I assume Australian only,, but maybe others did too) used the numeric code only and not the alphabetical code which GM used on the civilian models. So a 1942 civilian truck of 1.5 tons which had a code of MR or MS would have been a series/model 15 (as per the GM issued Truck Parts manual) or 1500 (as per the D.M.E. Technical Instruction).

So it now is starting to make sense, now all I need to do is determine which is which, so I assume 1500 or 15 is a 1.5 ton truck. The reason I am trying to work the civilian and military models together is that the access I have is to people with civilian parts but they are not local to me.

Anyway thanks to all for your help

Matt