Milestone CMP's: Canada's 500,000th military vehicle

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Apparently it was quite the gathering of people and vehicles. Some of the captions and pictures found at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/a...t/index-e.html include:

"CANADA'S 500,000TH MILITARY VEHICLE - OSHAWA, JUNE 1943. Canada's half-millionth unit of motorized equipment, a battery charger lorry, was completed in Oshawa recently, and presented by Hon. C.D. Howe to Col. J.L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence. Ceremony was attended by many foreign representatives, high army officials and industrialists."

See the footage here, too: https://youtu.be/hU6UX-TCXm0?feature=shared&t=86