You don't have someone supporting documentation (photos, drawings) on this version of the Ford? It was a tractor anti-aircraft guns Bofors. Used is our Armored brigade in Great Britain.
Here is a picture of the vehicle:
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It is a truck built to the CMP (Canadian Military Pattern) specification. The F60S was a three-ton truck (60cwt) with 4x4 drive. The abbreviation LAAT indicates that it was a light anti-aircraft gun tractor. Engine: Ford 3917ccm V8, rated at 71 kw (95hp). It was mainly used by British and Canadian Army units.
It was also in the armament of an anti-aircraft battery of the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade and used to tow Bofors guns. Six tractors of this type were also in the Combined Troop, which was detached from the brigade and entered Czechoslovak territory on 1 May 1945.
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LAAT = Light Anti-aircraft Artillery Tractor
A tractor was enough typically modified just for the "artillery" role - in addition to the boxes behind the cab (which were accessible from the side), intended for flower boxes with ammunition, was the vehicle equipped with the winch (note the "jingle bells" for the guidance of the rope between the side members of the support frame below the rear face of the hull) for extracting pl the guns of the firing position (foxhole)... Some vehicles carry also the frame (or, if you prefer, the cage) to save the material, located above the box of the driver and the commander. The vehicle was also being used as a tractor guns, anti-tank (probably 6 pdr)...
I attach a picture of the vehicle canadian protiletadlovců from the campaign in Italy.
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Type F60S, as most of the cars category of the CMP was produced by both manufacturers, i.e., not only at Ford but also GM of Canada (Chevrolet). Of course, the designation was not F60S, but C60S..
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Thanks for the information. Yesterday at CT1 ran a show about CIABG, was there to see one of the Ford F60S with Boforsem, see. photo:.
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Ford F60S + Bofors 40 mm AA gun, CIABG, Praha květen 1945
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F 60 S
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