The Morris Commercial C8 Field Artillery Tractor, nicknamed the Beetle-back Quad, was the artillery tractor used by British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War to tow field guns such as the 25-pounder and anti-tank guns such as the 17-pounder. In 1937 the War Department asked for a short four-wheeled, four-wheel-drive tractor with a winch, and Morris answered with a new design evolved from its CS8 15 cwt truck. It had a four-cylinder engine on a subframe and a sloped-side all-metal body, designed to be decontaminated after a chemical attack. The first was delivered in October 1939 and it stayed in production until 1945, with many rebuilt in the 1950s.
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The first Morris C8 Quad was delivered in October 1939 and it then stayed in production until 1945.
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It included a new four-cylinder engine mounted on a subframe and not directly onto the chassis.
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The Morris Commercial C8 FAT (Field Artillery Tractor), commonly known as a (Beetle-back) Quad, is an artillery tractor used by the British and Commonwealth (including Canadian forces), during the Second World War.
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The Morris Commercial C8 FAT (Field Artillery Tractor), commonly known as a (Beetle-back) Quad, is an artillery tractor used by the British and Commonwealth (including Canadian forces), during the Second World War.
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The Morris Commercial C8 FAT (Field Artillery Tractor), commonly known as a (Beetle-back) Quad, is an artillery tractor used by the British and Commonwealth (including Canadian forces), during the Second World War.
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Morris Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.
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