Ford Canada Conventional and Modified Vehicles

[Hanno Spoelstra]

"Pushing the reconaissance car through the mud."



Australian Armed Forces on manoeuvres in the snow at Buffalo
Date [ca. 1942]
Identifier(s) H98.105/5268

Source: https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entit...&mode=overview

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Apparently taken at Mt Buffalo Victoria , a series of pics

https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entit...31&mode=browse

https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entit...76&mode=browse

[Sergey Egorov]

Originally Posted by Bill Kreiner

Does anyone know what model this 1944 Modified Conventional Ford is? I found it on an ancient thread in this group, but there is no further identification.

Photo of very similar dump truck have in book Clive Law "Drive to Victory". Now I own it (book of course).

[Hanno Spoelstra]

RNZAF 1942 Ford Fordor Staff Car.

RHD, black, painted grille and trim - looks like the cheapest no-frills version from the catalog. Reportedly, ten (10) examples of the 1942 Ford V8 Fordor were exported to New Zealand during the Second World War.

Note the census number "MT2230" on the bonnet and license plate "5209" on the front bumper which has retained it's chrome

“Image from the EJ Miller personal album collection. Driver, Josie McGovern, poses with the Commanding Officer's Ford car, MT2230, at Suva Point, Fiji.”
Date: 15/11/1944


https://fotoweb.airforcemuseum.co.nz...10157.jpg.info

Rear shot of another Ford Fordor in RNZAF use.

[lynx42]

Looks like the 1941 Ford with the bonnet/hood up is a 6 cylinder model by the radiator shape.

Originally Posted by Steve Guthrie

Here are some Ford of Canada car Canadian Army photos

[lynx42]

Nice photo of the web of an R.A.A.F 1941 (?) Ford station wagon.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

1940 Ford Station Wagon at Camp Shilo, Manitoba in the summer of 1941. Ralph Goff’s dad at left and another fellow, last name Fraser.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Another Station Wagon, in England 1944.

Note the camouflage pattern.

Picture courtesy of Donald Legault.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Also included is well known 1941 C11AD Station Wagon (Truck Type). It's actually a C11ADF as it has right hand drive

Nice pic of a C11ADF in the Western Desert, August 1942. Photo by Bob Landry


Source: https://images.google.com/hosted/lif...2bc38a94b.html


Also photos of a less fortunate one....


Source: https://images.google.com/hosted/lif...7b9494542.html | https://images.google.com/hosted/lif...3a2395f1f.html

[Mike K]

The DH89 air ambulance had plenty of space to land - probably 1000 square kilometres or more !

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Shown here are a 1941 Ford Fordor C11A sedan and a 1942 Ford Fordor C21AS Staff Car. You can see the C11A is a Conventional vehicle, with just light alterations from a civilian vehicle.

Picture of what looks to be a 1941 Ford Fordor C11A fitted with a roof rack. Location and date: the "Biltstraat" street in Utrecht, 7 May 1945. Judging by the flag, I think this is part of the Operation Faust convoys.


Source: https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/d...0-a9628dc6764d

[Hanno Spoelstra]

C11ADF of the RAF hiding behind Grumman Martlet III HK842 "O" of the Fleet Air Arm.

Location: Malakal, a town in Upper Nile, South Sudan



Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/billch...th/4508310175/

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Cut-down C11ADF - somewhere in the Middle East or North Africa?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

"A 451 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), motor vehicle and crew in the Sinai, Middle East dated March 1943.
The dog looks a little small, young or friendly for airfield defence, and certainly too early in the century for drug or firearm detection."


Source: Steve Given, https://flic.kr/p/aDhtVP