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Originally posted by David_Hayward
I have my doubts about US supply to Ford SA and NZ...they were subsdiaries of Ford of Canada and logically they received Canadian Fords as they did post-war. Plus English of course!
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South African Reconnaissance Cars were assembled at the Dorman Long structural steel company from armour plate made by the South African Iron & Steel Industrial Corporation and chassis assembled by Ford Motor Company of South Africa (Pty.). Ford SA used 3-ton chassis components imported from Canada, modified with Marmon-Herrington supplied conversion kits. (Later Marks no longer had a separate chassis, and used CMP F60L automotive components due to major difficulties in getting M-H components in 1942.)
So the chassis and engines came from Canada, and the All-Wheel Drive Conversion kits from Marmon-Herrington Company of Indianapolis, Indiana USA. I would not be surprised if the same was true for Ford Australia. I can't see why M-H would deliver conversion kits to South Africa or Australia through their Canadian agent.
H.