Canadian Ferrets

[Dan Martel]

Colin,

The only Ferret scout car trivia that I have comes from the archives at DHH.

In April, 1962 the Director of Equipment Policy, a Colonel GM Rolfe, responded to an earlier inquiry from the DSD with a list of all of the equipment held by the Army as of that date. The list was broken down into four annexes for vehicles, weapons, electronics and aircraft.

Under the vehicles annex it shows a total of 123 scout cars (one shy of the number initially acquired). The list shows a distribution of 39 in Europe, 72 in the CA(R), 0 in the CA(M), 6 being used in schools and 6 in RCOC depot stock.

I know it's not much but I thought you would be interested.

I also noticed in an earlier message you stated that two of the vehicles were written off after fires. Do you have the dates of the write off? It appears that one occurred before 1962.

Dan