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Old 20-03-03, 21:10
Pete Ashby Pete Ashby is offline
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Default F60H 6x4

David

The F60H in the background is showing the three colour disruptive scheme. I have no record of trucks coming to the UK in this format. There are however pictures of a number of trucks in Canada (all Fords) painted in this way. See Blue Print for Victory Gregg pages 78 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto summer 1940 and page 69 factory photo of a standard 15A of mid 1940. Back on the old forum there was a thread about three colour camouflage schemes. Hanno may know where to find it?

This system of factory painting did not last long. I suspect that CKD shipping and the loss of sub assemblies made matching the paint patterns almost impossible. The three colour schemes was superseded by factory applied G3 for northern Europe which was over painted after assembly with a dark green and then before Christmas 1940 with Knobles Tarmac green (almost black) both types applied by hand in a broad disruptive pattern.

The FAT looks to be mid range 11 cab at a guess around September to December 1940

Pete
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