CMP Quad gun tractor + QF 25 pounder

1/72 scale resin 3D printed model unassembled and unpainted.

Model in kit packed in cardboard box

2 units in the packaging (1 CMP tractor + 1 25 pdr gun)

DESCRIPTION:

The CMP (Canadian Military Pattern) was a very significant Canadian contribution to the Allied war effort during WWII.

The CMP was a range of trucks designed and produced in Canada simultaneously by the subsidiaries of Ford, GM (General Motors) and Chrysler, serving in all Allied armies and on all war theaters.

During the WWII a total of 850.000 of these trucks were produced for different uses, a greater number than the total of trucks produced in Germany in the same period.

In the case of the British, from 1940 the CMP became the main truck of their army since during the evacuation in Dunkirk the British expeditionary forces had to leave all their vehicles on French soil.

CMPs were used in a wide variety of tasks.

The 25-inch QF Gun was the most widely used by the British Army and Commonwealth armies during WWII. Its success was due to the fact that it was a gun, reliable, durable and easy to use. The two most significant characteristics of this cannon were: on the one hand the circular base platform that served both to absorb the recoil and to facilitate the rotation of the weapon to fire in any direction, and on the other hand its ammunition trailer with which it build a tandem for transportation. It was an 87.6 mm (3.45 in) caliber gun of which over 13,000 units were produced throughout the war, mainly in the UK at the Vickers-Armstrongs, Baker Perkins and Wird plants, although also some units were built in Canada and even Australia.