"Irish wheels on African soil: the Ford armoured car" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Oct 2020 9:30 p.m. PST |
"During the Emergency (1939–45) the Irish Army lacked much of the essential equipment needed to defend Ireland, and naturally it was not possible to import armoured vehicles from abroad. To overcome this, Major J.V. Lawless of the Cavalry Corps designed a number of armoured cars based on various truck chassis that were then built in Ireland. In 1941 Thomas Thompson and Son of Carlow were commissioned to manufacture 28 armoured cars based on Lawless's designs. By taking a Ford 1?-ton truck chassis made in Cork and adding armour and a turret with a .303-inch Vickers machine-gun, a useful vehicle capable of defending airports and escorting convoys was created. But in the absence of four-wheel drive it had no cross-country capability. Twenty years later, in January 1961, eight of these armoured cars, followed later by three more, were flown to the Congo by the US Air Force to assist Irish soldiers serving in Ireland's first United Nations mission there. The previous November nine Irish soldiers had been killed in a ambush by Baluba tribesmen and, although a peacekeeping mission, it was clear that armoured vehicles would now be needed. Before going to the Congo the armoured cars were painted white, but this coating quickly disappeared in the heat and combat to reveal the standard Irish Army colour of Quaker grey underneath. Later, as the fighting became more severe, UN vehicles were painted in olive green to help camouflage them…"
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gavandjosh02 | 02 Oct 2020 2:33 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 02 Oct 2020 1:01 p.m. PST |
Happy for that my friend! (smile) Amicalement Armand |
jurgenation | 02 Oct 2020 1:56 p.m. PST |
Hot cramped …hand cranked turret…armour was worthless..but it had a MG…later the Irish recieved 6 M113;s Apc;s along with Swedes.,and some Ferrets from the Maylasian army..that hey left behind. |
Legion 4 | 03 Oct 2020 7:48 a.m. PST |
Seems almost everyone on the planet had or has M113s … 😎 |
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