Open AccessSOUTH AFRICAN ARMOURED CAR PRODUCTION IN WORLD WAR II
Author(s) -
Richard Cornwell
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/7-3-836
Subject(s) - port (circuit theory) , factory (object oriented programming) , world war ii , chassis , first world war , government (linguistics) , spanish civil war , engineering , history , economic history , archaeology , ancient history , linguistics , philosophy , structural engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , programming language
In the years immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II, the government of the Union of South Africa was already beginning to consider the mechanisation of its small field army. Early in 1937 the Ford Motor Company's factory at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, obtained drawings from their Calladian offices, showing details of an experimental armoured car built for the Department of Defence in Ottawa, and based on the adaptation of a Crossley armoured car to a Ford chassis. The South African War Supplies Board was very interested in this project and approached the Ford Company at Port Elizabeth which had indicated that it would consider undertaking manufacture of a similar vehicle