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Marine M37 build

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I knew Storm would be our answer guy on the canvas. Not sure exactly what the firewall tag is used for. I had my original cab tub and a replacement cab tub from a donor truck both had the tags and both had different numbers. They also seem to have a prefix and suffix system to them because of the two different fonts. At one time I was thinking contract numbers or part numbers but not sure at this point. Wondering if your truck was transferred from the Army to the Marines. Or if the truck was used in Viet Nam there is a good chance the Marines mid night requisitioned it from the Army.
 

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Those tags on the firewall (the ones with the rounded corners) are from the plant that made the body tubs. I'm not sure if they were a separate division, company or what. Similar, I believe, to all the old Lincoln - Continental being "Body by Fisher" (yeah, I'm old).

Those tags were just for internal tracking during the build process. The government systems didn't recognize or account for them.
 

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Those tags on the firewall (the ones with the rounded corners) are from the plant that made the body tubs. I'm not sure if they were a separate division, company or what. Similar, I believe, to all the old Lincoln - Continental being "Body by Fisher" (yeah, I'm old).

Those tags were just for internal tracking during the build process. The government systems didn't recognize or account for them.
I can't find a supplier code in the ORD 9 SNL for the body tub, so it might have been assembled in house by Chrysler. The only other likely candidates would be Briggs or Budd, but Briggs doesn't appear in the list of suppliers in the front of the SNL for the G-741 vehicles.

As for Fisher Body, they were a captive GM supplier after 1919, so it's unlikely that they supplied bodies for Lincoln or for Continental, which were Ford divisions.
 
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