Armour in Canada: Fox Armoured Car
Fox Armoured Car
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3206255)
Troopers of the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in a General Motors Canada Fox Armoured Car, Matrice, Italy, 27 October 1943. Based on the Humber design but Canadian made, with Canadian designed chassis and mechanicals. Usually had a 4 man crew ; a driver, crew commander who searched with binoculars as shown here, a gunner, a loader, radio operator. Operated in platoon squadrons of 4- 5 cars. The casualty rate was about 25%, with 10% KIA. (Ken Smith)
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Fox Armoured Car Mk. I, 13th Reconnaissance Regiment, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232403)
Fox Armoured Car Mk I, MGen Worthington, in front of the parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, ca 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3207635)
Troopers of The Royal Canadian Dragoons patrolling in a General Motors Fox Mk.1 armoured car during a training exercise, England, ca. 1-3 April 1943.
Built by General Motors, Canada, based on a construction of the British Humber Armoured Car Mk. III, adapted to a Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) truck chassis.
The turret was manually traversed and fitted with 0.30 and 0.50-nch Browning machine gunse four man crew consisted of the vehicle commander, the driver, a gunner and a wireless operator. 1,506 vehicles were manufactured. (Wikipedia)
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(Ontario Regiment Museum Photos)
This 1943 GM FOX Armoured Car came to Oshawa in 2023, from Italy in where it had been deployed 80 years ago.
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(Ontario Regiment Museum Photos)
1943 GM FOX Armoured Car, Ontario Regiment Museum.