Early CMPs in NW Europe

lynx42 · #1 11-08-17, 03:14

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 · #2 12-08-17, 00:16

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 · #3 26-09-17, 23:06

Monkey face C15A in Den Haag, may 1945

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

Alex van de Wetering · #4 01-01-18, 23:20

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

marco · #5 03-01-18, 13:22

Found another photo from "AC-3" showing some detail from the rear body.

Marco

Alex van de Wetering · #6 03-01-18, 13:30

Awesome picture, Marco!

Alex

Alex van de Wetering · #7 29-11-19, 00:10

At least 3 Monkey face FATs in Belgium 1944.
Source: Canadian Army Newsreel 45
https://youtu.be/N-P0_TyIdXg

Alex

Phil Waterman · #8 03-01-18, 16:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by marco

Found another photo from "AC-3" showing some detail from the rear body.

Hi Marco

That is just one of the better photos, what more could you ask for extra gas cans, reclining canvas chair, table for your typewriter, warm enough to take of your shirt, and do your paper work.

Gives you a feeling for how these guys lived, worked out of the back these trucks for months on end.

Cheers Phil

Alex van de Wetering · #9 16-01-18, 22:46

FAT Tuesday!
A couple of stills from movies in the collection of the Friesland film archives. This archive was in the Dutch national news last week as they found a missing fragment of a Stan Laurel film.
The archive also has several movies of WW2 in Friesland.

This movie shows several vehicles at rest in a field in April 1945 (from about 00:45). Two cab12 FAT's can be seen in a field along with a cab13 FAT. On the other end of the field, another 4! Monkey face FAT's can be seen. The movie also shows a Bedford QLB, a number of carriers, A HUW and a Morris FAT

Alex van de Wetering · #10 20-10-21, 23:16

A couple of early CMP's In Gent (Ghent), Belgium , september 1944 with at least one Cab 11!

First picture is from: https://www.gent-geprent.com/straten...n-b/brabantdam

second is a screenshot of this film: https://huisvanalijn.be/nl/collectie...-van-gent-1944
(apart from the early CMP's the footage contains more interesting vehicles....Carrier with german licence plate, Commer Q4, HUP, Otter, Sherman Crab, Bedford QL's and MW, Dennis.......and terrific background music)

The last two pictures are from IWM collections:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205425991
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205425992

chalky · #11 22-10-21, 06:40

Great thread and film links.
Can't imagine why anyone would think early CMP 's would not be used in NW Europe. As has been mentioned they would only be a few years old and many from England would have seen fairly gentle use.

British forces in Korea in 1950s were still using early WW2 stuff like open cab 3ton 6x4s.
The antique look of which amazed the Americans.

Craig

Philippe Jeanneau · #12 16-01-20, 01:34

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 · #13 16-01-20, 21:18

Quote:

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.

Quote:

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 · #14 16-01-20, 22:59

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

Hanno Spoelstra · #15 22-01-20, 22:59

Here’s a Cab 11 in postwar civilian service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Larry Hayward · #16 23-01-20, 23:19

Has anyone found any early CMPs with wooden bodies in NW Europe 1944-45?

BTW - I think the F30 (Registration PFF503) posted awhile ago by Hanno is a later No.12 Cab vehicle with a donated early body and not built like that

(Hanno I have sent you a PM)

Alex van de Wetering · #17 26-07-20, 23:32

An early FAT in Nederweert, 1944.

source; IWM, https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060008525