help with dataplate info please

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Thank gooooodness for that...a transcription error! Yes, I am sure now that it was either a different interpretation OR there were two at least people doing stamping and someone used a digit stamp instead of letters for some reason.

This is my complete listing for 1942 C15A serials:

Holden serials [CKD]/ early Oshawa SUP:
2844400189P ENGINE # WR3,859,926 MAY 5 1944 [PERTH-ASSEMBLED]
2844400312S [SYDNEY-ASSEMBLED]
2844400325M ENGINE # WR3,816,063 Contract SM2196 WO18 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400396S ENGINE # WR3,851,568 [SYDNEY-ASSEMBLED]
2844400439S ENGINE # WR3,821,426 [SYDNEY-ASSEMBLED]
2844400447 ENGINE # WR3,762,557 [?-ASSEMBLED]
2844400469 ENGINE # WR3,763,625
2844400493 ENGINE # WR3,763,620
2844400503 ENGINE # WR3,763,662
2844400652M ENGINE # WR3,860,226 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400679M ENGINE # WR3,860,220 FEBRUARY 24 1943 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400713M ENGINE # WR3,859,790 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400719M ENGINE # WR3,859,771 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400807M ENGINE # WR3,860,120 APRIL 3 1943 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]
2844400842M ENGINE # PR3,859,828 [MELBOURNE-ASSEMBLED]

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Oshawa serials:
2844402084
2844402137
2844402219
2844402290
2844402442
2844411688
2844413641 ENGINE # WR3,812,972 C.D.L.V. 316 MAY 12 1942
2844419324 ENGINE # WR3,840,943 S/M 2564 JULY 16 1942
2844419447 ENGINE # WR3,840,887
2844419686
2844419763
2844419910
2844420433
2844420436 JULY 29 1942
2844420692
2844421984
2844422010
2844425880 ENGINE # WR3,851,419 C.D.L.V. 311 SEPTEMBER 24 1942 Z 5777485
2844425936 ENGINE # WR3,852,746 C.D.L.V. 311 SEPTEMBER 24 1942
2844425990 ENGINE # WR3,851,519 C.D.L.V. 311 SEPTEMBER 24 1942


C15441-M CAB 13 #WR3,880,534 CONTRACT C.D.L.V. 317. JULY 15 1942

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA
MADE IN GM CANADA
OSHAWA WALKERVILLE REGINA
MODEL 84-44
SERIAL 2844400469
ENGINE 3763625 BODY SERIAL 435
TRIM WR PAINT F.C.98

Canadian Top & Body Code & Serial No. 3-2-JI-10007

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA
MADE IN GM CANADA
OSHAWA WALKERVILLE REGINA
MODEL 84-44
SERIAL 2844400447
ENGINE 3762557 BODY SERIAL 469
TRIM WR PAINT F.C.98

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA
MADE IN GM CANADA
OSHAWA WALKERVILLE REGINA
MODEL 84-44
SERIAL 2844400503
ENGINE 3763662 BODY SERIAL 505
TRIM WR PAINT F.C.98


GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LTD
OSHAWA CANADA
CHASSIS MODEL C-15441-M
CAB MODEL 13
CHASSIS SERIAL 2844413641
ENGINE SERIAL WR3812972
ORDER NO LV 316
DATE OF MFG MAY 12-42


GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA
OSHAWA CANADA
CHASSIS MODEL C15441-VAN-6
CAB MODEL 13
CHASSIS SERIAL 2844419324
ENGINE SERIAL WR3840943
ORDER SM 2564
DATE OF MFG JULY 16 42


VEHICLE MODEL
C-15441-M-VAN-2

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LTD
OSHAWA CANADA
CHASSIS MODEL C-15441-M
CAB MODEL 13
CHASSIS SERIAL 2844425990
ENGINE SERIAL WR3851519
ORDER NO LV 311
DATE OF MFG SEPT. 24-42


You can see my data for C.D.L.V. 311 contract. The suggestion is therefore that over 100 units, perhaps 150, of the same type could be assembled by Oshawa in one day. I have not got any data for monthly production for Oshawa but Windsor Transmission Plant assembled 5,715 Chev 216 engines in August 1942 and 6,688 in September. I assume that they had 7-day working? Allowing for spares and requirements for use in MCPs,may I suggest that 120 CMPs per day was reasonable given the evidence? I seem to remember that in autumn 1940 production was to be ramped up to over 100 units per day because of the British orders BUT there was of course civilian demand still at the time.