Ford US trucks for RAF, Egypt

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted in FORD Wreck in the desert...:

Andras Zboray (www.fjexpeditions.com) wrote:

Though the mainstream of the convoys were Ford F30's, Maple Leaf Chevs and mack 6/10 tonners, "after August 1942 every possible vehicle had to be pressed into service to supply Kufra"

Earlier on in this thread, I assumed from reading http://www.fjexpeditions.com/ > The Kufra Convoys that the Ford truck remains must have been one of 41 Ford 30 cwts used by the Sudan Defence Force running the Halfa-Kufra route. From Andras' message I now understand these Ford 30-cwts were actually CMP F30's, not militarised conventional 1½-ton Fords. Therefore, the remains of the 1942 model Ford must also be one of those trucks used "after August 1942 [when] every possible vehicle had to be pressed into service to supply Kufra". The last remains of an elusive FC60L 3-ton truck?!?