Early CMPs in NW Europe

[Alex van de Wetering]

Two more Monkey face trucks in NW Europe to start 2018!

First one is a 12cab 3 Ton truck with Bailey bridge equipment on board an LCT on Sword Beach, D-day + 4 (June 10th 1944). source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205314106

Second is I think a C15A cab12 with the doors removed and what seems a replacement makeshift cab roof. Still from a Pathe movie of the Liberation of Amsterdam 1945. I could be the same truck that also appears on a picture taken in Haarlem and footage taken in Zandvoort, but I have to check.
Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL0c...t=WL&index=103
around 1:18

Alex

[marco]

Found another photo from "AC-3" showing some detail from the rear body.

Marco

[Alex van de Wetering]

Awesome picture, Marco!

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

At least 3 Monkey face FATs in Belgium 1944.
Source: Canadian Army Newsreel 45
https://youtu.be/N-P0_TyIdXg

Alex

[Alex van de Wetering]

C15A Cab 12 in Mill, 1945

source: https://www.bhic.nl

[Alex van de Wetering]

Two Monkeys in Utrecht 1945; slides from a movie in the Utrecht city archives

Chev 3ton or 30cwt and F15A cab12

source:hetutrechtsarchief.nl

And a Ford F30 Ambulance in Schiedam 1945
source:https://beeldbank.schiedam.nl/

Alex

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by marco

Found another photo from "AC-3" showing some detail from the rear body.

Hi Marco

That is just one of the better photos, what more could you ask for extra gas cans, reclining canvas chair, table for your typewriter, warm enough to take of your shirt, and do your paper work.

Gives you a feeling for how these guys lived, worked out of the back these trucks for months on end.

Cheers Phil

[Alex van de Wetering]

FAT Tuesday!
A couple of stills from movies in the collection of the Friesland film archives. This archive was in the Dutch national news last week as they found a missing fragment of a Stan Laurel film.
The archive also has several movies of WW2 in Friesland.


This movie shows several vehicles at rest in a field in April 1945 (from about 00:45). Two cab12 FAT's can be seen in a field along with a cab13 FAT. On the other end of the field, another 4! Monkey face FAT's can be seen. The movie also shows a Bedford QLB, a number of carriers, A HUW and a Morris FAT

[Alex van de Wetering]

Two more early FAT's filmed in Leeuwarden, two in Sneek
And a 15cwt in Heerenveen.

It could be that some of the footage shows the very same vehicle, but it's hard to tell. One of the FAT's in Leewarden seems to be missing the front bumper.

Alex

Source:
Leeuwarden:https://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?m...rden&miview=ff
Sneek:https://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?m...neek&miview=ff
Heerenveen: https://www.archieven.nl/nl/zoeken?m...true&miview=ff

[Harlé Sylvain]

Hello
Nice pictures of the FAt with an amazing load on the roof!

Thank's to share them
Sylvain

[Rich Payne]

Round about 0.42

http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/647

[Alex van de Wetering]

A couple of early CMP's In Gent (Ghent), Belgium , september 1944 with at least one Cab 11!

First picture is from: https://www.gent-geprent.com/straten...n-b/brabantdam

second is a screenshot of this film: https://huisvanalijn.be/nl/collectie...-van-gent-1944
(apart from the early CMP's the footage contains more interesting vehicles....Carrier with german licence plate, Commer Q4, HUP, Otter, Sherman Crab, Bedford QL's and MW, Dennis.......and terrific background music)

The last two pictures are from IWM collections:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205425991
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205425992

[chalky]

Great thread and film links.
Can't imagine why anyone would think early CMP 's would not be used in NW Europe. As has been mentioned they would only be a few years old and many from England would have seen fairly gentle use.

British forces in Korea in 1950s were still using early WW2 stuff like open cab 3ton 6x4s.
The antique look of which amazed the Americans.

Craig

[Alex van de Wetering]

Can't imagine why anyone would think early CMP 's would not be used in NW Europe. As has been mentioned they would only be a few years old and many from England would have seen fairly gentle use.

I agree Craig, but that seems to have been the general view until a few years ago.


Attached some early FAT's (at least 4) in Gorredijk (Friesland), The Netherlands 1945.

source:https://www.gorredijk-historie.nl/pa...-van-gorredijk

[Niels V]

My 12 CGT has a rebuild plate from Oct 44 for a full rebuild, so that would have been fresh and ready for a trip through NWE

[Niels V]

I spent some time the other day looking through IWM clips
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060019695 at 0:38

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...sVkKuImc5BXIKE at 01:46