From: HOWARD WRIGHT (dvsww2@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 11:25:23 PDT
Bill, having lived through those times, I can remember the car our small
town had. Our neighbor was a police officer and head of the CD reserves
and they had an old bathtub Hudson that was black and white and was painted
with the Civil Defense Logo on the doors and deck lid. It had lights and a
siren and a PA on it. We have two brothers in our MV club and they recently
bought a nice M37 that is painted red and still has the CD decals on it.
> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Chambers <bchambers@hoovers.com>
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 6/17/03 7:32:08 AM
> Subject: [MV] Civil Defense vehicles 1950s
>
> Ok,
> Sorta offbeat, but...
>
> Is anyone here up on the use of MVs by the Federal Civil Defense Admin. in
> the early 1950s?
> Heck, anyone know of any good reference materials, the internet has short
> blurbs about the start, but not much else.
> Turns out my grandfather was one of the first Fed Administrators, and
would
> like to look at getting info on vehicles, items, etc.
>
> I would imagine that they were supplied with surplus vehicles, but how
were
> they painted, what were the markings?
> I may remember Bert the Turtle with his "duck and cover" routine but I bet
> some of this group were a tad bit older and more aware! <g>
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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