Ford C11ADF

The Ford C11ADF, known as the Ford Fordor and officially the Station Wagon Heavy Utility 4x2, was a militarized station wagon used in the North African Campaign of the Second World War. It was often fitted with roof hatches, a few roofless versions were built, and it served as a cargo van, military transporter and staff car. The body shell came from the contemporary American Ford station wagon but sat on a heavier chassis designed for off road use. Ford of Canada produced it, and it was also assembled from knock down kits at Dagenham in the United Kingdom and in Australia. Its Ford V8 engine was shared with the Universal Carrier and the Fordson WOT truck, which gave Commonwealth forces useful parts commonality. Production stopped in 1945, though a modernized civilian version continued in Britain until 1947, and the article calls it one of the precursors of the crossover SUV.