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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra
Did some reading in my trusty set of Wheels & Tracks magazines, which is where I found the answer:
X2 stands for export to United Kingdom.
Would this tie in with manufacture of the Gun Laying radar, Mark IIIC? Where these manufactured specifically under British or under Canadian contract?
And if this C60L was indeed part of a Gun Laying Radar convoy, how would it have ended up in Norway? Were they supplied with the radar sets or was the truck issued as a generic GS version?
Loads of questions still to be answered.... |
Hanno,
All the equipment for the GLIII(c) radar convoys came under one Contract number, S/M2828 and I am sure this covered those that came to UK and those to Australia.
The Chev C60 census numbers for the UK were L4786091 - 4786491 and a handful with earlier numbers (same contract).
As Norway received a lot of surplus equipment from the UK after the war, it is quite likely that the C60 was part of it. The radar would have probably been obsolete by then with later types taking its place, and the truck only being a load carrier, nothing specific. Also it would appear that few Canadian vehicles were retained in British service for long, after the war.