[Milsurplus] Production Figures

J Forster jfor at quik.com
Sun Feb 10 15:33:15 EST 2008


Hi Hue,

I'd like to know the ARB numbers.

Also, all the US produced WS 19s were the Mk IIs. AFAIK, no Mk IIIs were made in the
US.

Best,
-John



Hue Miller wrote:

> 1) Some equipment should be seen more today than they are, going from what
> you would expect from the production numbers. I am thinking  of specific example
> SCR-300. I "assume" this condition is from the fact that so many went overseas to
> be used by allied countries, after the war.
>
> 2) Makes you really wish you could find something similar for Navy
> All we can do for Navy is maybe, guesstimate from "frequency of
> sightings" and comparing to Army equipment. But that would not be any kind of
> publication-ready number. The only numbers i know, or knew!, was for ARB and
> ATB, which numbers leaked out by way of RCA. And the MBM and CMS, you
> know the numbers had to be on the scale of the PRC-1, maybe less!
> -Hue



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