REFERENCES

CMP

REFERENCE

MATERIAL

BOOKS .................. MAGAZINES ........... MANUALS ................. VIDEOS / MOVIES

On this page you can find out what reference material, be it books, magazine articles, parts or maintenance manuals or even videos and movies, about Canadian Military Pattern vehicles is available and where to find it. Your contributions are as always most welcome. Please don't assume that I know of every piece of reference material in existence, I don't! Please email me with your contributions.

BOOKS

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT PROFILES, VOLUME 1, FIELD ARTILLERY 1939 - 1945; MICHAEL K CECIL; 1992; ISSN 1038-1740; PUBLISHED BY AUSTRALIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT PROFILES . Includes an excellent section on the Ford and Chevrolet No 8 and No 9 gun tractors.
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT PROFILES, VOLUME 3, AUSTRALIAN SCOUT AND ARMOURED CARS 1933 - 1945; MICHEAL K CECIL; 1993; ISBN 0 646 14611 4; PUBLISHED BY AUSTRALIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT PROFILES . Plenty of useful information about CMPs in general as well as the CMP based Australian armoured vehicles.
CANADA'S FIGHTING VEHICLES, EUROPE 1943 - 45; WILLIAM GREGG; 1980; ISBN 0-969-0943-0-2; PUBLISHED BY CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY . 250 pages of photographs and data describing military vehicles in Canadian service 1943 - 45.
CANADIAN MILITARY VEHICLE PROFILES; WILLIAM GREGG; 1981; ISBN 0-969-0943-1-0; PUBLISHED BY CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Profiles on 20 military vehicles in Canadian service including CMPs. Includes many illustrations and much data.
BLUEPRINT FOR VICTORY; WILLIAM GREGG; 1981; ISBN 0-969-0943-2-9; PUBLISHED BY CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY . This is the story of Canada's incredible 850000 vehicle contribution to the Allied war effort in World War Two including the 409936 CMPs.
If you want to purchase a copies of these books, I found the Royal Canadian Artillery Kitshop to give good service. I am not sure where but they used to be online. Unfortunately, CANADIAN MILITARY VEHICLE PROFILES is no longer in print but should be available from specialist second hand military book dealers.
THE OBSERVER'S FIGHTING VEHICLES DIRECTORY - WORLD WAR II; BART H VANDERVEEN, OLYSLAGER ORGANISATION; 1972; PUBLISHED BY FREDERICK WARNE & CO, LONDON . Bart Vanderveen's publications are legendary among military vehicle enthusiasts as a reference source. This book shows CMPs in service with many different countries and also makes good reference to the enormous effort made by the Canadian motor industry in WW2.
HISTORIC MILITARY VEHICLES DIRECTORY; BART VANDERVEEN; 1989; ISBN 0900913 57 6; PUBLISHED BY "AFTER THE BATTLE", BATTLE OF BRITAIN PRINTS INTERNATIONAL LTD, LONDON. Also known as the "Wheels and Tracks" directory, this publication is essentially an update of Vanderveen's previous book mentioned above. Both publications are excellent reference sources.
THE HISTORY OF FORD IN AUSTRALIA; NORM DARWIN; 1986; ISBN 0-9592287-1-3; PUBLISHED BY EDDIE FORD PUBLICATIONS P/L, NEWSTEAD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA., and
THE HISTORY OF HOLDEN SINCE 1917; NORM DARWIN; 1983; ISBN 0-959-2287-05; PUBLISHED BY EDDIE FORD PUBLICATIONS, NEWSTEAD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
The two books above are mainly concerned with the cars produced by the two companies over the years but there is some reference to wartime production of CMPs. Some interesting photographs of some of the Australian CMP models are included although both books are spoiled by the many badly mislabelled photographs, for example, in the Ford book the vehicle labelled as a Ford No 8 gun tractor is obviously a Chevrolet to the expert observer. Many other photographs are wrongly captioned, in the Ford book, a wrecker is labelled a machinery truck and vice versa. It is a pity that these books gave so little emphasis to what was surely an extremely important period in building Australia's automotive manufacturing industry into what it is today. Still interesting reading though.

MAGAZINES

If I have missed any magazine articles that you may know of, please email me .

WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 1. Canadian Chevrolet C8A, The story of Canada's famed CMP Heavy utility vehicles - Part 1: HUPs
WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 2. Canadian Chevrolet C8A, Canada's Heavy Utility 4 x 4 vehicles of World War II - Part 2

WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 7. History relived in Canada, The Canadian Military Historical Society and Gregg Canadian Collection. Very interesting article about historical Canadian military vehicles in general with an emphasis on the work of Dr William Gregg

WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 9. CMP Seminar '84, Reliving a period of Canadian history.

WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 25. Canadian Prototypes, A review of experimental vehicles during 1935 - 41. Learn all about how the CMP was developed
WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 33. Canadian AT Gun Portee, British-design 2-pdr Portee on CMP CGT Chassis
WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 34. CMP Wreckers, Military twin-boom Breakdown on Canadian Chevrolet and Ford chassis
WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 37. CMP Assembly Overseas, Re-assembly of knocked-down Canadian Military Pattern vehicles
WHEELS AND TRACKS, No 68. C8A HUP prototype. This is the vehicle owned by Brian Gough of Oshawa, Ontario.
ARMY MOTORS, No 85. Blitzing About… The Restoration of an F15. Mike Cecil, the author of the Australian Military Equipment Profiles mentioned in the book series above, wrote this interesting article about the restoration of his Ford F15.

MANUALS

This is the list of CMP manuals that I own or have had access to. My thanks also to Graeme Jamieson sending me pics of some of his collection of manuals. There are many more and I will add them when I get access to them or learn more about them. Meanwhile take a look at . Alex Blair of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada offers superb reproductions of original military manuals including a large number of CMP manuals. I have purchased a Ford CMP parts manual and I can highly recommend the quality of the manual and of Alex's service.
. FORD INSTRUCTION BOOKS FOR SPECIAL PATTERN VEHICLES . This was the name that the British initially gave to CMP vehicles. Covers most major and minor repairs as well as operating instructions.
. FORD F15 DRIVERS HANDBOOK.
. FORD ILLUSTRATED ARMY PARTS CATALOGUE 1940 - 1942 , My copy is one of Alex Blair's excellent reproductions.
. FORD F.A.T. SPARE PARTS CATALOGUE.

. FORD MAINTENANCE MANUAL MB-F1. JUNE 1943 .
. CHEVROLET ILLUSTRATED ARMY PARTS CATALOGUE 1940 - 1941.
.CHEVROLET C60S SPARE PARTS BOOK 1944.
.CHEVROLET C60L SPARE RARTS BOOK 1942.
.GM C60X SPARE PARTS BOOK 1944.

. GM MAINTENANCE MANUAL MB-C1. APRIL 1942. and
. GM MAINTENANCE MANUAL MB-C2. SEPT 1943. There are only a few minor differences between the above two manuals that I can see. Interestingly, neither manual refers to these vehicles as being Chevrolets.
. DRIVERS HANDBOOK FOR CHEVROLET 1945. Australian Military Forces book on driving all Chevrolet CMPs.
. THE 1945 AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES DRIVERS INSTRUCTIONS FOR FORD CMP VEHICLES. This is a book I would love to get a copy of. If anyone knows of a spare, please contact me .
There are quite few sites on the Web that cater to the flathead Ford V8. Many are just about using them in hot rods but they are all interesting. Click here or here to have a look at a couple of sites that may help you learn a little more about them. Go here to get a list of books about rebuilding them. Typing "flathead and Ford" into your search engine will undoubtedly find you more sites.

VIDEOS / MOVIES

If you know of a movie or video that features CMP vehicles then please EMAIL me.
"YEAR OF THE BLITZ" In March 2002, no less than 34 CMP trucks gathered together at Corowa in New South Wales, Australia creating a record for the largest numbers of privately owned Blitzes in the one place. Keith Webb made this excellent video to record the event. It not only contains vision of the record itself but has a number of interesting pieces including Mike Cecil telling of the Blitz's history in the Australian Army and Brian Gough giving a tour around his prototype C8A HUP. This video is well worth the money for any CMP fan.
"In the 1995 movie "OPERATION DUMBO DROP" starring Danny Glover, army men must procure an elephant for Vietnamese villagers. The elephant is transported on a blue 13 Cab Chev C60L, probably 1944 or 1945 (it has the lifting flanges on the front wheels). It has no hatch, is fitted with duals on the rear and a non standard box and the brush guard is missing, but it is the real thing." Thanks to Brian Gough
The 1969 classic movie "THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN" contains an early scene which shows the Germans preparing for their assault on Britain. The authenticity of their equipment is a bit dodgy since the "German" armoured vehicles seen in this scene are this pair of Chevrolet C15TAs .
THE BEST OF MILITARY VEHICLES; PRESENTED BY NIGEL JAMES AND GERRY BURR
HISTORIC MILITARY VEHICLE ROAD RUN; PRESENTED BY GERRY BURR. I purchased these two British videos in the hope that I would see some restored CMPs in Britain, and if not, some interesting military vehicles of other types. Instead I got a pair of very amateurish videos which mostly contained footage of the presenters head and his interviewees with the occasional glimpse of a military vehicles in the background. There was a couple of CMPs there somewhere but, like the other vehicles, the talking heads blocked the view. I think I could do better with my old Super 8, don't waste your money on these videos.
Rod Lewis found a movie called "MUNSTERS GO HOME" in which Herman Munster and family get involved in a car chase in England including a roofless Cab 13 CMP truck. It is difficult to identify this truck. In one of the head on shots the grille badge appears to be oval in shape like a Ford but this scene is filmed in the dark so it is hard to make out. In another scene the shape of the engine cover appears to be like a Chevrolet but once again the shot is not clear. There are no grille guards or overflow tanks to make identifying it easier.
According to Brian Gough, the 1997 movie "SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET" starring Brad Pitt has a 15 cwt and a 60cwt CMP in it.
I received this mail from Poul Brink in Denmark "In a Danish film called "MAJORENS OPPASSER" (The Major's Batman) from approx. 1965-66 a number of military vehicles are included, among them two C60's and a C8A. It is a Danish comedy featuring one of Danish film's greatest comedians, Dirch Passer. At one passage in the film he has to take cover (and does so in the middle of the road) while the vehicles pass over him. Some of these lorries are C60's. In another section he is let loose in the motor yard among the vehicles, and this is where the C8A is shown."