Canadian Government donates jeeps to The Netherlands (1953)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

See Nostalgienet for a newsclip showing the first shipment of fifty overhauled jeeps arriving in The Netherlands in 1953. These were a gift from the Canadian Government. During the weeks following the arrival of this first shipment, shipments totalling 824 jeeps would be coming in.

I wonder how many of these survive?

H.

[Phil Waterman]

It would be interesting to know where they were stenciled and what the stenciling said.
From the video it looks like there might be something on the stenciled on the cowling, it would be an interesting bit of history to have a Jeep that had gone from the Canadian Army to Holland. Do you have any idea how these Jeeps were used.

My C60S was one of the trucks given by Canada to France in 1946. It had stenciled on doors
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
TO THE FRENCH ARMY
FROM THE CANADIAN ARMY

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

My C60S was one of the trucks given by Canada to France in 1946. It had stenciled on doors
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
TO THE FRENCH ARMY
FROM THE CANADIAN ARMY

That is an interesting date. I'd always understood NATO was created following the Berlin airlift and other provocations by the so-called Warsaw Pact, and much later than 1946. If anything it would make more sense to be a United Nations claim.

Terry

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Do you have any idea how these Jeeps were used.

Phil, they were used by the Armed Forces as regular jeeps.

H.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

That is an interesting date. I'd always understood NATO was created following the Berlin airlift and other provocations by the so-called Warsaw Pact, and much later than 1946. If anything it would make more sense to be a United Nations claim.

I'm prettry sure Phil's truck was not delivered to France untill the early 1950s.

From The Marshall Aid: "The Marshall Plan - for economic aid - came into effect in 1948. It combined various American financial economic European aid programmes and was meant to replace the existing UNRRA aid programme (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency) that had been set up just after the end of the Second World War under control of the United Nations.

After 1952 the nature of the American aid to Europe changed and the Marshall Aid was gradually reduced. It was replaced by the Mutual Defence Assistance Act (MDAA). The Mutual Security Agency (MSA) saw to it that economic aid to European countries was strictly connected to military expenditure. The Netherlands, by then a member of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), got the newest American army equipment, naval vessels and fighter planes at their disposal via the MDAP (Mutual Defence Assistance Program)."