CMPs at the Dutch National Military Museum

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some numbers on CMP trucks in Netherlands Army use:

• About 900 C60L's in use until 1960
• The Artillery had 165 CGT's plus 101 FGTs on strength
• In 1951, 338 C15A's were listed on strength, but undoubtedly more were in service early after WW2

The museum catalog notes that the Army Museum acquired the C60L, C15A and CGT in 1975 as part of a major acquisition. They are unsure if these examples were ever used by the Netherlands Army.

The C60L was used in the movie "A Bridge Too Far".

The C60X was added to the collection in 1983, when it was in poor condition but came with Netherlands Army provenance. This type of truck was in use from 1945 until 1954, then kept is storage as war reserve.

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