CANADIAN CMP BASED
ARMOURED VEHICLES
All thumbnails on this page are links to the
larger photo.
In
addition to large numbers of very high quality trucks in numerous models, the
Canadian Military Pattern family also included a significant number of Armoured
and Scout Cars. This page is dedicated to those of the family built in
CAR, SCOUT, LYNX
In 1942,
the Canadian Department of National Defence ordered a new scout car to
supplement the supplies of the British Daimler Scout Cars then entering
service. The resulting Lynx was similar in appearance to the Daimler although
there were substantial differences.
Not the
least of the differences was that the Lynx was designed around Ford's rear
engined 4 x 4 armoured car chassis. The Lynx Mark 1 had an
armoured roof that was deleted on the Mark 2. It was usually armed with a
.303" Bren light machine gun.
The Lynx
never attained great popularity among it's users although it was used by a
large number of Canadian armoured units in
ARMOURED CARRIER, 4X4
INDIAN PATTERN
Ford
CAR, ARMOURED, CANADIAN
GM MARK 1, FOX 1
The Fox
armoured car was made by General Motors of Canada by the simple expedient of
marrying the British Humber III armoured car hull to the CMP Model 8446 rear engined 4 x 4
armoured car chassis. This was the same chassis used for the basis of the
Australian "Rhino" heavy armoured car. 1506 Foxes were
manufactured by GM between 1941 and 1943.
.
. The Fox under
restoration in the first photo belongs to an auto wrecker in
. .Jan 2001. This Fox is under restoration by
Bruce Parker of
The Fox
was powered by the GM 270 cu in six cylinder engine and was armed with one .50
cal heavy machine gun and one .30 cal medium machine gun mounted co-axially in
an armoured hand traversed turret. The Fox had a crew of four.
The
Canadian, British and Indian Armies all used Foxes operationally although it
was never particularly popular with it's crews. Canadian Foxes were relegated
to the training role in mid 1943.
CAR LIGHT RECONNAISSANCE
OTTER 1
1761
Otters were manufactured in
The Otter
was a successful vehicle which served with the Canadian Army in
The Otter
was armed with a .303" Bren gun in an anti aircraft mount although it
could also be used in the ground role. A 4" smoke discharger was also
fitted.
TRUCK, 15 CWT, ARMOURED 4 X 4
During
1944 and 1945, General Motors of Canada manufactured some 4000 C15TA armoured
trucks based on the Chevrolet C15A 4 x 4 chassis. The model number was
C15TA-ARMD-1. Basically the C15TA was an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC)
variant of the Otter
The
truck's main role was as an armoured personnel carrier that could seat six in
the body of the vehicle as well the driver and commander in the normal
positions. The truck was used extensively by both the Canadian and British
Armies both during WW2 and post war. There were also General Service and
ambulance versions of this vehicle.
DISCLAIMER. I do not pretend
to know all there is to know about CMP based armoured vehicles. Should you see
a mistake or have some additional information that may be helpful to me to
complete this page, please email me.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I obtained most of the
information on this page from various sites on the Internet but especially…..
George
Bradford's excellent AFV NEWS
Chris
Johnson's marvellously detailed STEEL CHARIOTS
Barry
Beldam's comprehensive ARMOURED ACORN
As usual,
Brian Gough has been a great help in building my information base on these
vehicles.
I got most
of the information on the Indian Pattern vehicles from Bart Vanderveen's
excellent Historic Military Vehicles Directory, page 217. More details on this
publication are available on the REFERENCES page.
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