The rounded, slab-sided hull was drawn to put the gun crew, the ammunition and the stores inside one enclosed body that could follow the gun anywhere. It is instantly recognisable and, in photographs of the Western Desert and of Normandy, almost always there.
Only 200 Mk Is were built, in 1939 and very early 1940; about 4,000 Mk IIs in 1940 and early 1941; and about 6,000 Mk IIIs from 1941 to 1945, the Mk III with four-wheel drive that could be switched in and out. The same chassis carried general service bodies and, lengthened as the C9B, a self-propelled 40 mm Bofors.
Mk I and Mk II (1939–1941)
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTER200 Mk Is from October 1939, then about 4,000 Mk IIs.
Registry records · chapter 1
Mk III and the other bodies (1941–1945)
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERAbout 6,000 Mk IIIs with selectable drive, the GS body and the C9B Bofors portee.
Registry records · chapter 2
Base models
The structural configurations the registry and the Creator build from; each page carries the researched specification.In service
Where the registry's C8 records worked; each opens the themed history.Sources
- Morris C8 — Wikipedia