Early CMPs in NW Europe

Alex van de Wetering · #1 31-01-17, 23:29

Awesome picture Marco!
I agree with David....could be a rare ZL. Also great to see a C15A with house type body ....and even a rare 3Ton truck with house type body.

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Looks like an interesting building behind them

I am pretty sure the building is a freight storage building; the size and shape of these buildings were very similar all through the country. Freight trains could stop on one side, trucks on the other. These buildings were usually positioned quite close to the regular passenger railway stations.

Alex

Alex van de Wetering · #2 31-01-17, 23:39

You do need good eyes for the next one....

The picture is from Bill Miller's Canadian Kangaroo Regiment Association and archive facebook page and originally came from Art Bell's collection. According to the description the picture was taken in Germany, 1945.......a 4x4 cab11/12 in 1 CACR service(?)

Thanks Bill!

Alex

Alex van de Wetering · #3 10-08-17, 23:48

A couple more Monkey faces in the Deelen dump, september 1946.

Original Pictures are from the Dutch National Archives.

First picture shows a cab12 in the centre of the picture....second row of trucks. It's hard to see, but there might be 2 or 3 more on the right of the picture.

Second picture shows cab 12....not sure if it's the same one as in picture 1, but I think it's a different one.

Third pictures shows 2 Cab 12 FATs.
Fourth picture seems to show 3 more Early FAT's behind the cab13 FATs.

Alex

lynx42 · #4 11-08-17, 04:14

Not sure if this is Europe of Russia. The front or main truck is also interesting, I love the sand tyres in the mud.

1st Panzer Div (2).jpg

1st Panzer Div cmp.jpg

Regards Rick.

Alex van de Wetering · #5 12-08-17, 01:16

A rare Ford F8 Heavy Utility in Polish service, Ter Apel (Holland) april 15 1945!

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TZs...dex=66&list=WL

From about 3:21

Alex

Alex van de Wetering · #6 27-09-17, 00:06

Monkey face C15A in Den Haag, may 1945

source: http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/

Alex van de Wetering · #7 02-01-18, 00:20

Two more Monkey face trucks in NW Europe to start 2018!

First one is a 12cab 3 Ton truck with Bailey bridge equipment on board an LCT on Sword Beach, D-day + 4 (June 10th 1944). source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205314106

Second is I think a C15A cab12 with the doors removed and what seems a replacement makeshift cab roof. Still from a Pathe movie of the Liberation of Amsterdam 1945. I could be the same truck that also appears on a picture taken in Haarlem and footage taken in Zandvoort, but I have to check.
Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL0c...t=WL&index=103
around 1:18

Alex

Philippe Jeanneau · #8 16-01-20, 02:34

Post# 86 looks like a 1940 (1.5 ton) Chevrolet, being used by the SS... It may very well be Eastern Europe. Very interesting to see a captured British vehicle brought back from the desert and still in use...

Hanno Spoelstra · #9 16-01-20, 22:18

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Originally Posted by Philippe Jeanneau

Post# 86 looks like a 1940 (1.5 ton) Chevrolet, being used by the SS... It may very well be Eastern Europe. Very interesting to see a captured British vehicle brought back from the desert and still in use...

Rick Cove's picture has the file name "1st Panzer Div", this may be a clue?

The German did not take captured vehicles with them when they retreated from North Africa. They barely had enough shipping available for the soldiers and armoured vehicles. So if this is Eastern Europe, the truck must have come from elswehere.

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Originally Posted by lynx42

Not sure if this is Europe of Russia. The front or main truck is also interesting, I love the sand tyres in the mud.

Regards Rick.

Bob Carriere · #10 16-01-20, 23:59

Leassed to the Russian who shared with the German army.......

Amazing that some vehicles made it from North Afrika to Italy than shipped to Southern France and then driven to the Holland for battle...... the amazing number of cab 12 that survived is amazing and a testament to their strong built and ongoing field repairs..... basically if it ran it was used in battle..... all the while the new accumulating vehicle inventory sat in fields in England with limited means to move them to the front fast enough..... but GM and Ford and others still cranked them out.....

Bob C