Canadian Vehicle Performance And Reliability Trial Procedures 1945

by: Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Publication date: 1945

Topics: Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, RCEME, le Corps du Génie électrique et mécanique Royal Canadien, GEMRC, Land Ordnance Engineers, LORE, Canadian Army

Collection: rceme; journals

This is a reproduction of a document that was produced at the end of the Second World War. It is a photographic study of the procedures and facilities used by the Army Engineering Design Branch of the Canadian Department of Munitions and Supply at that time. The test area is the Ordnance Proving Grounds, near Ottawa, which remained in use by successive DND organizations, ending with the Land Engineering and Test Establishment that closed in the mid 1990s.

The original document is a letter with photographs in the archives at the Canadian War Museum. It is incomplete and all the original forms and the first eight pages of the procedures are missing. Still, it gives a good idea of how new and experimental military vehicles were tested during the Second World War. The Canadian War Museum archives have a large number of reports of the individual tests.