30 items in this album on 2 pages.
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Canadian CMP 3/4-ton 4x4 truck undergoing testing, 1941. Note early cab design with rear swinging doors, rear sloping windscreen, and traditional front fenders (wings). | Canadian-built CMP Field Artillery Tractor being unloaded from a troop ship in Colombo harbor, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Feb 1942. |
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Bedford QL truck being loaded onto a LCT large landing craft during a training exercise, circa 1942, location unknown. | British driver posing with his Canadian Chevrolet-built CMP 4x4 truck in the North African desert, circa 1942. |
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Canadian Ford-built CMP 3/4-ton 2-wheel drive truck set to lead a British Royal Air Force convoy out Libya to Tunisia, circa 1942. | Canadian Ford-built CMP 3/4-ton 4x4 truck with Bedford-built after body serves as a windscreen for British soldiers setting up a tent in the North African desert, 1942. |
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A captured Canadian Ford-built CMP truck converted to carry a 2cm Flak 30 cannon in the German Afrika Korps, North Africa, 1943. | Canadian Chevrolet CMP C-60L 3-ton truck with early style cab design outside Wadi Sora in the Sahara Desert in southwestern Egypt, 1942-43. |
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Members of the British 11th Royal Horse Artillery, First Armoured Division, pose with their Canadian Chevrolet-built CMP 4x4 truck, messenger motorcycle, and canine mascot, Tunisia, 22 Apr 1943. | R. Samuel McLaughlin, president of General Motors of Canada, holding a lug wrench in a publicity photo commemorating completion of Canada’s 500,000th military vehicle, a Chevrolet CMP battery charging lorry. |
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Canadian-built Chevrolet CGT and 25-pdr field gun of 51st Highland Division, Militello, Sicily, Italy, 15 Jul 1943 | Canadian Ford CMP basic transport truck, date and location unknown. |
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Canadian Ford CMP Field Artillery Tractors pulling artillery pieces, date and location unknown. | Canadian Ford-built CMP early style cab-and-chassis with a British-built personnel hauler after body being used by the United States Army Air Force in England, 1943-45. |
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Canadian-built Chevrolet CMP 6x6 gun tractor, date and location unknown. | CMP Field Artillery Tractor with gun in tow after suffering a mishap on an icy snow covered road, British Columbia, Canada, 1943-45. |
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Gun crew using the onboard winch in their Canadian Chevrolet CMP 8440CGT Field Artillery Tractor to pull their QF 25-pounder howitzer up a hill, date and location unknown. | QF 25-pounder howitzer crew readying their gun, date and location unknown. Note the gun’s pedestal floor plate, the ammunition packed in the limber, and the CMP Field Artillery Tractor. |
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Canadian tank crew directs traffic around a disabled M4 Sherman tank while they install a new tread on a narrow road in Normandy, France, 1944. Note CMP ambulance and another CMP truck cab at right. | British soldiers wash a Canadian-built CMP command car and an American-built Jeep in a local stream in Normandy, France, 5 Jul 1944. |
30 items in this album on 2 pages.