The Morris CDSW 6x4 was a six-wheeled artillery tractor brought into service in the early to mid-1930s by the British Army to tow its field guns. Typically...
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the Morris CDSW. The Royal Artillery persisted with specialist artillery tractors – known as "Field Artillery Tractors" (FAT) – such as the Morris "Quad"...
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general service truck Leyland Retriever 6x4 truck Morris C8 – "Quad" field artillery tractor Morris CDSW – 6x4 artillery tractor Queen Mary trailer – trailer...
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guns. The early 18- and 25-pounders had been towed in the field by the Morris CDSW or the earlier Vickers Light Dragon Mk. III, a tracked vehicle derived...
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The gun on Mk. VP carriage with its modified armour shield on pneumatic tyres with limber towed by Morris CDSW tractor, 1938...
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for a new FAT to supplement, and then replace, the Light Dragon and Morris CDSWs then in service. A specification was issued for a four-wheeled, four-wheel...
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were succeeded by Nuffield Oxford Taxis. Military vehicles CS8 (1934–1941) CDSW (1935–1939) CS9 (1938) C8 (1939–1945) Post war civilian production FV (1948–1955)...
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and its 18-pdrs were withdrawn for conversion to 18/25-pounders. A few Morris CDSW gun tractors were issued to TA batteries in early 1939. The four batteries...
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vehicles for towing all the army's artillery (such as the Morris CDSW and later the Morris C8 "Quad", and the AEC Matador), and the procurement of tracked...
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best-known of these during WWII, but the Diamond T Model 980 and the Morris CDSW were also built in large numbers. In 1929 Garner built a single 6×4 lorry...
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