Bofors 37 mm gun
From Weapons and Warfare but no picture.
Woolrich arsenal appreciated that the 2 pdr gun would soon be out of date, and in 1938 began designing a 57 mm 6 pdr with a low priority. A pilot model was built and fired in 1939, after which the design was shelved until such time as it might be needed.
Shortly before the war the Sudan government purchased a number of 37 mm guns from AB Bofors of Sweden, and on the outbreak of the war these were made available to British Army units in the Western Desert to make up for their lack of 2 pdrs. This was an excellent gun with a performance sljghtly below that of the 2 pdr and proved extremly valuable in the early part of the desert campaign until the increased weight of armour carried by German tanks made it obsolete, along with the 2 pdr.
Those 6 bolt Chev wheels sound like a half ton rim.
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1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends
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