CMP vehicles in service with the Royal Netherlands Army

[Ed Storey]

I guess it depends on how many were manufactured as the vehicle may also have been used in Canada during the war, and those F60B vehicles could have been shipped to the Netherlands in the early 1950s.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I guess it depends on how many were manufactured as the vehicle may also have been used in Canada during the war, and those F60B vehicles could have been shipped to the Netherlands in the early 1950s.

We would need to find out how many were manufactured and how many were shipped overseas. I recall Bart Vanderveen publishing an article on the subject of the vehicles shipped back to Canada after WW2.

Here are more photos of F60Bs parading in the town of Scheveningen on Queens Day, 30 April 1952. At least four were in the parade, sporting their postwar Canadian Army Registration. One is "83-365", the other numbers are obscured.

Titel: Twee 40mm 40L60-motoraffuiten op een Ford F60B 3-tons 4x4-chassis tijdens de parade ter gelegenheid van Koninginnedag 1952 op de boulevard van Scheveningen.
Datering van: 1952-04-30
Bijzonderheden: Deze stukken zijn als militaire hulp van Canada verkregen. Dit type geschut is ingedeeld geweest bij 25 en 35 Afdeling lichte luchtdoelartillerie.
Registratienr: 83-365


Source: https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/f...b-573cd3ef00be and Source: Collection Haags Geeentearchief

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some more F60B photos with dates and registration numbers found on this webpage: http://www.grondgebondenluchtverdedi...?/category/363


No number, date: 1946(?), location: Den Helder gunnery range



83-115, no date, no location



"Herscholing 1951 richtoef Ginkelseheide Ede" = Reskilling 1951 aiming exercise Ginkel Heath, Ede. I cannot decipher the number



83-299

[martin bendsoe]

Fantastic collection of photographs -- so little time, so many models to be built.
Cheers, Martin
(my first post to MLU Forum)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by martin bendsoe

Fantastic collection of photographs -- so little time, so many models to be built.
Cheers, Martin
(my first post to MLU Forum)

Thanks for engaging with us on here, Martin!

Never pledge to build all possible variations of the CMP family of vehicles - by the time you think you are finished someone will dig up 6 more variants

[Hanno Spoelstra]

C15A with registration number 58439 during the preparations of exercise "Grand Repulse". Customs check what the soldiers are bringing along into Western Germany, September 1953.

Beschrijving: Voorbereiding legeroefening "Grand Repulse". Controle douane.
Datum: 1953-09-07

Source: Nationaal Archief http://hdl.handle.net/10648/a912b838...8-003048976d84
Also see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...exercise,_1953))