>>>The CMP web site is one year old this week. Take a moment to leave
your
>>MB,
>>>GPW, M151, M35, DUKW and have a look at the site. 350000 CMPs were
>>built so
>>>they aren't exactly insignificant.
>>>
>>I would disagree with Rod here, in 1941 Canada made 189,178 CMP's; in
>>'42 a further 199,542 plus 12,987 AFV's.
>
>
>Hi Richard, What is your refernce for those figures? I got my
information
>from Bart Vanderveen's Historic Military Vehicles Directory Page 40
which
>states
>"4x2, 4x4, 6x4 and 6x6 Canadian Military Pattern: 390,273 (including
209,004
>3 ton 4x4)
>
>Those figure do not include Canadian wheeled armoured vehicles which
were
>mostly based on CMP truck components. A bit of arithmetic on the
figures on
>the same page comes up with 16241 of them too.
>
Hi Rod,
The reference source was Vanderveen's Fighting Vehicles Directory
(W.W.II), Page 212 which gives a very good, concise overview of the CMP
scenario; I will mail you separately.
All the best,
Richard
(Southampton UK)
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