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In Britain the Bofors was produced in the main, by Nuffield Mechanisations, (part of Morris Motors). Their first one being delivered to the army from their Coventry factory on 15th June 1939.
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'On 7th January 1939, Colonel NO Carr wrote to the DCE & ME, Department of National Defence, in respect of the body for a Field Artillery Tractor, No1, Mk I, for towing the QF 40-mm AA Equipment. He requested an order be placed with the British War Department for the supply of a copy of the General Arrangement Drawing, Design Drawing DD(V)630, together with photographs, of the tractor body as referred to in the R.A.C. Minutes A-7320 of 12th October 1938 and A-7349 of 9th November 1938'.
So far as I can see this body was the Morris-Commercial body as fitted to the CDSW, which of course went into production by Wolseley Motors initially in 1939 and then Austin Motors the following year.