New Facts: Regina GM Plant....

Velle Addict · Guru

New Facts: Regina GM Plant....

67Poncho · Uber Guru

Well, that is kind of a downer to hear!!! What fact in the tag will tell? I wonder about that '40 I had on here? Would she have been built there??

Stephenzone · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

here are 3 vin plates from 40 and 41 they all have oshawa walkerville and regina on them. all the other plated that i have seen from 44 onward don't have that line.

40 chev truck

41 olds

40 gmc

Velle Addict · Guru

67Poncho wrote:

Well, that is kind of a downer to hear!!! What fact in the tag will tell? I wonder about that '40 I had on here? Would she have been built there??

I'm just as dissappointed as you Vince. My '34 is from Regina, so I just put 1+1 together and figured it was built there. WRONG. Your 40 was probably built there because from what I've been told, full production resumed at the plant in 1937 or 1938.

Velle Addict · Guru

Stephenzone wrote:

here are 3 vin plates from 40 and 41 they all have oshawa walkerville and regina on them. all the other plated that i have seen from 44 onward don't have that line.

40 chev truck

41 olds

40 gmc

That's good stuff Steve! I wondered when they changed those plates. Now, I'd like to find out when production ceased at that plant.

67Poncho · Uber Guru

Velle Addict wrote:

67Poncho wrote:

Well, that is kind of a downer to hear!!! What fact in the tag will tell? I wonder about that '40 I had on here? Would she have been built there??

I'm just as dissappointed as you Vince. My '34 is from Regina, so I just put 1+1 together and figured it was built there. WRONG. Your 40 was probably built there because from what I've been told, full production resumed at the plant in 1937 or 1938.

If I get the plate and post it, will you decipher it? I am sure the owner would like that as well!! How about the plates above, can you tell?

Velle Addict · Guru

I'll get my books out and see what I can dig up later today.

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

1937

Stephenzone · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

40 chev (2Ton Cab & chassis) 15-33

40 GMC (2Ton Cab & chassis) 95-33

41 Oldsmobile 35-19 ( i don't know the breakdown for olds)

Oracle · Addicted!

Ask me direct by PM or e mail: gmhistorian@btinternet.com for queries on Canadian Chevrolet/GMC/Chev-based Pontiac, to 1958, and also Chev/Pontiac/Olds/Buick 1928-39 as I have the date books for the latter, and a database for the former!

I also have my draft book on the history of Regina Plant written over numerous years which may get published one day! I have the Regina serial numbers for all years, for all makes, and the opening and closing dates: roughly December 1928-mid-1931; February-August 1932; December 1937-June 1941. However when Regina re-opened for the second time in 1937 for 1938 MY, they used '8' as a plant code on the serial number after the Model Number, and Oshawa became '0'. 1935-1937 vehicles sold through (distributed through) the Western Zone Office in the Regina Plant had 'W' after the Model Number, although 1932-4 although sent to the Western Zone based in the closed Plant, they did not apparently indicate this on the build plate.

-- Edited by Oracle on Sunday 5th of July 2009 02:54:25 PM

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Wow. Great stuff! Welcome to the site.

Todd

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

looking for gm canadian paint codes prior to 1955?

-- Edited by 68sd on Sunday 5th of July 2009 09:03:40 PM

Oracle · Addicted!

Paint codes are a complete mystery to me, and no-one seemed to know what they were. However, when this query came up recently on ChevyTalk, of which I am a 10-year Mod (1917-48), someone came up with codes for 1938 Chevies. I just wish I knew how we could find them, apart from what was Vintage Vehicle Services.

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

good im glad im not the only one in the dark?

maybe something will show up here sometime?

someone listed the 57 canadian chart on here a while back,but it was too small to read,i have 58 to 72,and 55 to 57 only the codes and names.

also cant find interior codes prior to 58 on Pontiacs and prior to 55 on chevs.

do you have a complete list of B.S.Os,i have only a partial?

any pre 58 info would be a great help to the pre 58 registry.

thanks

67Poncho · Uber Guru

Couple of new snaps...........

Oracle · Addicted!

Regina opened December 1928, closed August 1930, re-opened February 1931 and closed in the August, re-opened again in December 1937 and closed finally by July 1st 1941.

If there is enough demand I might even get my draft book published!

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Oracle wrote:

If there is enough demand I might even get my draft book published!

What size/number of a "demand" do you need? It be great to read your book.

Velle Addict · Guru

I have not checked out this discussion in ages and look what I have missed out on!!! I am going to contact the "Oracle" in regards to my '34.
Thanks guys for keeping the thread alive!

Oracle · Addicted!

I am here!

I am just debating whether to perhaps make the book on digital format, i.e. CD or DVD. I am a book author and editor and just cannot see that there is going to be a big demand for the history.

David

E mail
gmhistorian AT btinternet.com

-- Edited by Oracle on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:27:59 PM

Laurentian · Addicted!

I am answering to one post regarding trying to find original paint codes. Check Dupont performance coatings in canada on the web and click on the historical library. There are all the colors and codes going back to the twenties. or try the link below.

http://pc.dupont.com/hcl/?locale=en_US

Velle Addict · Guru

Oracle wrote:

I am here!

I am just debating whether to perhaps make the book on digital format, i.e. CD or DVD. I am a book author and editor and just cannot see that there is going to be a big demand for the history.

David

E mail
gmhistorian AT btinternet.com

-- Edited by Oracle on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:27:59 PM

Hello David! Private message has been sent. I have been trying to dig up the history of GM Canada for at least 10 years now. I'd be interested in ANYTHING that you have!!!!

67SD396Sask · Veteran Member

Here's a pic from Regina where the GM plant used to produce the trucks. I shot this pic a few years ago in front of south end of the plant that stretches about three blocks long, although it is now subdivided into smaller businesses. It's another piece of General Motors history going by the wayside, thanks to the guys for showing the pics and relating the story.

67Poncho · Uber Guru

I will have to one day visit the arch...........

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Velle Addict · Guru

67SD396Sask wrote:

Here's a pic from Regina where the GM plant used to produce the trucks. I shot this pic a few years ago in front of south end of the plant that stretches about three blocks long, although it is now subdivided into smaller businesses. It's another piece of General Motors history going by the wayside, thanks to the guys for showing the pics and relating the story.

That is an Awesome photo! Thanks for sharing it with us. Your Beaumont looks fitting in front of that entrance!

Oracle · Addicted!

This is OTT but here goes: I have been researching for many years now the very early history of GM vehicles in Canada pre-GM of Canada [1918]. I have researched and written a draft of the Walkerville/Windsor plants and the Regina one. That one on Regina is extremely fascinating and I suppose even now I feel so sad for the way that the prospect of jobs in a rural economy came with great publicity, faded, rose again, faded, rose again and then disappeared for good.