The C15TA Armoured Truck was an armoured load carrier produced by
Canada during the
Second World War.
It was developed from the
Otter Light Reconnaissance Car.
Development
The C15TA Armoured Truck was developed by
General Motors Canada along a concept lines of the
American
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M3 Scout Car. The vehicle used the chassis of the
Chevrolet
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C15
Canadian Military Pattern truck design. Between 1943 and 1945 a total of 3,961 units were built in
Oshawa, Ontario. Armoured hulls were supplied by the
Hamilton Bridge Company Hamilton may refer to:
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.
Service
The C15TA was used by the
British and Canadian units in the
Northwest Europe campaign as
armoured personnel carrier
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones. Since World War I, APCs have become a very common piece of military equipment around the world.
Acc ...
and
ambulance (CT15AA). After the end of the hostilities, many vehicles were left in Europe and were subsequently employed by armies of the liberated European countries, including
Belgium,
Greece,
Denmark (as M6 ''Mosegris''), the
Netherlands (which received at least 396 units), and
Norway. In addition about 150 were sold by Canada to
Spain. Trucks left by the British forces in
Vietnam were taken over by the
French
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, which used them in
Indochina and later transferred them to
South Vietnam
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. A command variant was also exported to the
Union of South Africa.
Many C15TAs were employed by the police forces of the
Federation of Malaya
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.
In 1955,
Portugal received a number of vehicles, locally known as GM 4x4 m/947 ''Granadeiro'' (
Grenadier
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). They were later used by the Portuguese in the
African wars, with some vehicles remaining in service until the 1960s.
See also
*
Otter Light Reconnaissance Car
References
;Notes
;Bibliography
*И. Мощанский - ''Бронетанковая техника Великобритании 1939-1945 часть 2'', Моделист-Конструктор, Бронеколлекция 1999-02 (I. Moschanskiy - ''Armored vehicles of the Great Britain 1939-1945 part 2'', Modelist-Konstruktor, Bronekollektsiya 1999-02)
* Roger V.Lucy, "The C15TA in Canadian Service", Service Publications,Ottawa, 2012
* List of surviving C15TA trucks (accessed 2019) http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_C15TA_and_Armoured_Command_Vehicles.pdf
External links
MapleLeafup.netMosegris
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