RCAF Unimog Truck
 

Hi

Tooling around the net and saw this pic of what appears to be an RCAF CMP, in France in the 50s. Big Fuel/Water(?) tank. My Dad worked a Microwave site there and then but not this one. They'd live on hilltops under canvas so perhaps this was a supply vehicle of sorts.

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/groste...sqn/601-34.jpg
http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/groste...sqn/601-34.jpg


*NOT a CMP. Apologies.

regards
Darrell

Looks more like a unimog to me.

I don't think it's a CMP. If it's not the UNIMOG -possibly SUMB or Marmon Herrington? My suggestions would fit with local purchase in France.

Unimog
 

It is a Unimog, a number of NATO Air Forces used Unimogs in the 1950s and 1960s.

That looks like a 1965 Mustang behind it.

behind it
 

... or it might be a Renault Caravelle.


http://www.straight.com/blogra/80920...ault-caravelle


Brian

Hi

Thanks for the clarification. Presumtuous of me to think it was a CMP. Must have made some of you cringe! :D

There are many nice civvy cars the troops regularly drove out to their sites.
Couldn't be a '65 Mustang. Pic was taken in '61.

Check out albums 4 to 8 here:

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/groste...pgt601sqn.html

My old man and his Jag:

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/groste...1sqn/601-1.jpg

regards
Darrell

You aren't the only one to make that mistake. Not that many years back there was an old fellow just off the trans-Canada near Virden MB who had a couple ex-Bundeshwer unimogs and a DAF (or maybe it was a MAN) littering about his yard. I would get more calls from friends who would spot these and let me know about them. The first thing I would say after they tell me they saw a bunch of CMPs was "the place outside Virden with the windmill?" The answer was invariably yes.