Remembrance Day: Universal Carrier on the Windsor test slope

Remembrance Day: a March 1941 Universal Carrier on the Ford Windsor test slope, now in our War Chest. Credit: NFB/LAC 3195684. Family photos, letters, medals or stories: windsornewsdesk@gmail.com. Keep your originals; we confirm permission before reuse.

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On Remembrance Day, Windsor War Chest points to a March 1941 National Film Board photograph of a Universal Carrier driven up a test slope at the Ford Motor Company of Canada plant in Windsor. The driver is not identified in the record. A companion photograph from the same plant and month shows workers on a military vehicle assembly line.

Rights and credit

National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada (MIKAN 3195684). The War Chest caption and credits treat this as a rights-cleared archival image already published on the live site.

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