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The 'Forgotten' British Patrol Truck That Crossed A Thousand Miles Of Empty Sahara

The LRDG Ford F30 was the truck the Long Range Desert Group never asked for. A Canadian-built military pattern vehicle pressed into desert patrol service when the Chevrolets wore out — and asked to do the same impossible job across a thousand miles of empty Sahara. The full story of how a flawed stopgap became part of the most effective special forces operation of the desert war. From Bagnold's first patrols to Kufra 1941. Ford Canadian Military Pattern F30. Flathead V8 sidevalve engine. Bagnold sun compass. Radiator condenser. Sand channels. Lewis guns. Vickers K guns. Breda 20mm cannon. Boys anti-tank rifle. Bofors 37mm portee. Every modification covered. Every weapon explained. Combat record across every theatre. Sand Sea crossing. Road Watch on the Via Balbia. Kufra. Siwa. Jalo. How the F30 carried David Stirling's SAS survivors out of the desert after their first failed parachute operation. Why the Ford's V8 burned twice the fuel of the Chevrolet it replaced. Why the men who drove it called it the worst truck in the desert — and kept driving it anyway. 70 trucks. Six miles per gallon. Engines cracked and patched with sand and chewing gum. One abandoned F30 still sits in the Libyan Sand Sea exactly where it stopped in 1941. Subscribe for daily British WW1 and WW2 military history documentaries. Comment which vehicle we should cover next. #LRDG #LongRangeDesertGroup #WW2 #BritishMilitaryHistory #BritishWarArmory