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Possibly they made an accounting error: while the listing for the item says 6, the total of 58 37-mm guns could indicate actually 8 were delivered, corresponding to those 8 guns plus limbers captured by the Japanese as Stellan noted.
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No, if you turn to the next page you'll see there were also 2 40mm guns delivered! That makes 58.
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Out of a grand total of 2,284 "37mm, M5 & M6, f/CV's", fifty were delivered to the Netherlands
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Turn some more pages and you'll see these would have belonged to the 50 M3 light tanks delivered to the Dutch (but diverted to Australia while en route te Java in March 42). As the document states: "theatre transfers do not have to show up".
Question solved.
Nuyt