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Speaking of Civil Defense.... I just bought off eBay a late '50s - early '60s Motorola portable two way radio... It has a CD sticker and serial. (Photo is off internet of a similar unit, could not upload the eBay photo). I hate to mention this, but I plan on displaying it in my USAF marked...

A lot of military surplus M38A1s (and other vehicles) ended up with local Civil Defense units, Civil Air Patrol, and various local and state government agencies. You can still see them with rural fire departments. Our local Fire District has two which tow plows to make fire lines on wildfires.

That makes sense..given the numbers I posted which came from the DB you mentioned. With #17000 in 9/52 and #48000 in 4/53...that's about 5000 A month (difficult to say since we don't know when on the month they were produced, early or late). One question...did Will's produce them on the same...

My unit is 82551...So 8300 units after yours. It has the same inspector's initials. Mine was built in 3/55...some 8 months later. So, by that time, production was 1000 a month. However, based on other serial numbers posted on another forum, I found that the AVERAGE production between 1952 and...