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From: "chance wolf" <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
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Subject: Re: [MV] [MV]What did your company do in the war dad...
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> From: "Geoff Winnington-Ball" <gwball@sympatico.ca>
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> Obligatory MV content: does anyone know what vehicle would've been the
> average vehicle tasked with towing the Bofors 40mm AA on the Home Front
> during the war? Probably something CMP, and likely Cab 11, I would guess,
> but others may have better guesses.
>
Just about any truck in the 1.5 ton - 2 ton class would have been tasked
with hauling a Bofors, certainly F30's and C30's would have been used, the
C30 was actually made as a LAA tractor and bodied accordingly. The F60 was
made as specially as an open cab variant with a Bofors mounted by Leyland in
the Kingston plant.
Some UK types were specifically made to operate the Bofors gun, the
Morris-Commercial C9/B mounted the Bofors like the F60 and the Bedford QLB,
Morris Commercial CDSW and Guy Quad-Ant were also made as specific Bofors
tugs with appropriate bodies.
Richard
Southampton - England
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