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Old 13-03-07, 20:30
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Default Data plate id help..

Ok, cheers for the help guys.. futher info to follow in a couple of weeks..

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Old 13-03-07, 20:43
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Hi 25pdr,

It's from a vehicle used to tow a 25pdr, a 1941 Chev CGT - Field Artillery Tractor.

Cheers,

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Old 13-03-07, 20:49
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Default CGT 11/12 cab Pictures

Here is a link to pictures on Keith Webb's site


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Old 13-03-07, 21:07
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Thanks for the help Brian, PM sent, if anyone has anything else please post away
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Old 13-03-07, 21:16
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Thanks for the help Brian, PM sent, if anyone has anything else please post away
Hi 25pdr,

Welcome, again, to MLU. I just approved/processed your new membership and actually also sent you a PM. Did you check your PM's yet?



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Old 13-03-07, 21:20
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Hi 25pdr,

Welcome, again, to MLU. I just approved/processed your new membership and actually also sent you a PM. Did you check your PM's yet?



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Hi Karmen,

yep was just about to reply to you to say thank you..

Cheers

Lee
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Old 13-03-07, 21:26
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Hi Karmen,

yep was just about to reply to you to say thank you..

Cheers

Lee
Hi Lee,

Cool, you're most welcome!

Karmen
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Old 13-03-07, 21:27
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Looks like an early one, too. Cab 11 perhaps?

I'm sure David Hayward will be able to give us some more detail on this.

What's the story behind the plate, Lee?
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Old 13-03-07, 22:07
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Old 13-03-07, 23:56
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The plate indicates it was a 1941 MODEL Chevrolet Gun Tractor, Model 8441, and the engine number is a WR-prefixed 1941 one. The sequential number suggests that it is after the 1940/41 "Allligator hood" introduction and therefore I suspected it was a # 12 Cab version. I also know of # 1844010482, but there is then a large gap until the next known CGT (which by then used XR-prefixed engines).

The engine number is similar to one in a 1940 Model CMP, as the Canadian 1940 orders carried on into 1941 Calendar Year and had "0" year prefixes accordingly. However that body number 17 suggests that this is a very early CGT, and possibly to British order S/M 2020 and assembled by General Motors Limited at Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Lancashire in late spring/early summer of 1941. I have photos of two of the first CGTs assembled at Bamber Bridge and they were # 12 Cabs, assembled alongside # 11 Cabs.

The body would probably have been by Gotfredson Limited of Walkerville/Windsor, Ontario and would have had a plate stating this originally.

Good luck and let us know more if we can help. We are all one big family here.

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Old 14-03-07, 19:55
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My 1942 13 cab CGT had a PR prefix engine number on the ID plate !
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Old 14-03-07, 20:01
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Also fitted to 1942 Model C60S and L chassis.
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