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Old 03-04-23, 02:11
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That F60B was indeed supplied by Canadian Military Aid as it still carriers its Canadian Army Registration 83-099.

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Old 03-04-23, 08:45
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That F60B was indeed supplied by Canadian Military Aid as it still carriers its Canadian Army Registration 83-099.
So this F60B is likely to have been shipped from NWE to Canada shortly after WW2, refurbished and then sent back to NW Europe as CMA in the early 1950s?
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Old 03-04-23, 21:41
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I guess it depends on how many were manufactured as the vehicle may also have been used in Canada during the war, and those F60B vehicles could have been shipped to the Netherlands in the early 1950s.
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Old 04-04-23, 10:12
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I guess it depends on how many were manufactured as the vehicle may also have been used in Canada during the war, and those F60B vehicles could have been shipped to the Netherlands in the early 1950s.
We would need to find out how many were manufactured and how many were shipped overseas. I recall Bart Vanderveen publishing an article on the subject of the vehicles shipped back to Canada after WW2.

Here are more photos of F60Bs parading in the town of Scheveningen on Queens Day, 30 April 1952. At least four were in the parade, sporting their postwar Canadian Army Registration. One is "83-365", the other numbers are obscured.

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Titel: Twee 40mm 40L60-motoraffuiten op een Ford F60B 3-tons 4x4-chassis tijdens de parade ter gelegenheid van Koninginnedag 1952 op de boulevard van Scheveningen.
Datering van: 1952-04-30
Bijzonderheden: Deze stukken zijn als militaire hulp van Canada verkregen. Dit type geschut is ingedeeld geweest bij 25 en 35 Afdeling lichte luchtdoelartillerie.
Registratienr: 83-365

AKL031504.jpg 1952-het-voorbijtrekken-van-de-luchtdoelartillerie-tijdens-het-defile-op-de-boulevard-koninginne.jpg
Source: https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/f...b-573cd3ef00be and Source: Collection Haags Geeentearchief
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Old 04-04-23, 10:26
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Default F60Bs in postwar service

Some more F60B photos with dates and registration numbers found on this webpage: http://www.grondgebondenluchtverdedi...?/category/363


No number, date: 1946(?), location: Den Helder gunnery range
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83-115, no date, no location
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"Herscholing 1951 richtoef Ginkelseheide Ede" = Reskilling 1951 aiming exercise Ginkel Heath, Ede. I cannot decipher the number
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83-299
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Old 04-04-23, 17:51
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Fantastic collection of photographs -- so little time, so many models to be built.
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Old 04-04-23, 22:01
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Fantastic collection of photographs -- so little time, so many models to be built.
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Thanks for engaging with us on here, Martin!

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