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Darrell Zinck 17-01-17 01:58

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

rob love 17-01-17 02:25

2 Attachment(s)
Looks more like a unimog to me.

Grant Bowker 17-01-17 02:29

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.

Ed Storey 17-01-17 14:19

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

cletrac (RIP) 17-01-17 14:33

That looks like a 1965 Mustang behind it.

Brian Gough 17-01-17 16:59

behind it
 
... or it might be a Renault Caravelle.


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


Brian

Darrell Zinck 17-01-17 17:52

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

rob love 17-01-17 18:37

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.


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