Vehicles
I am pretty certain from memory that the only vehicle to come back was a Ford Station Wagon. The 50 Ford F15s which I conject were the only CMPs were of course lost, but thank goodness as a result of 'persuasion' and perserverence all the guns came back. I would be interested to see hard evidence of anf CMP Gun Tractors having been assembled in Southampton (and Dagenham) and actually issued to the 1st Division by June 1940. The Ministry of Supply were of course consistent in their belief up until the Fall of France in the ability of British industry to supply the Canadian forces, as well as the AIF and NZEF in the UK at the time...we needed to sell vehicles for hard cash to purchase food with, and also spend in the USA. By 25th June that had all changed and "our man in Ottawa" had placed those first orders for Canadian vehicles.
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15-05-07, 23:25
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