40 mm Bofors AA guns made in GB and US

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

When?

I do not know yet. Will try to find out. In "Boforskanonen" Stockholm 1961, page 18, there is a reference to a manuscript written 1943 by Harald C:son Graim, sales manager for Bofors in Belgium.

Translated: "Belgian Congo had an independant Defense Force and there I managed to get some contracts for the 40 mm gun".

Same book page 173. Orders from Belgium:
Aug 1935 - 8 guns (delivered from Bofors 1936, confirmed)
Feb 1936 - 20 guns (for Congo? my guess)
1939 - 106 guns (probably never delivered)

The 1939 order I think was a stop-gap measure. The FN production went quite well (despite what is written in Terry Ganders book) and a lot of guns were made in Herstal-Liège and also for export.

But in 1939 the Belgians got fears for a German attack and decided to move the production line from Liège to a "safe" place called Anzegem (10 km East of Courtrai).

On 12 May 1940 everything that could be moved from the Anzegem factory was in a hurry sent to France.