DAF Armoured Vehicle,Word reaches Big lorry blog that DAF Trucks is celebrating 75 years of supplying vehicles to the Dutch army---and if I understand things correctly, it all started in 1935 with this rather strange looking vehicle when the Dutch Department of Defence placed an order with Van Doorne's anhangwagenfabriek for so-called TRADO conversions.
As if you needed telling, TRADO was an invention of artillery lieutenant and engineer, P.H. van der Trappen and DAF founder, Hub van Doorne, who undertook the task of transforming a normal truck with a driven rear axle into a truck with two driven rear-axles lie the one you see above. An amphibious vehicle prototype caused much attention(DAF Armoured Vehicle), the vehicle had four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and could be driven in two directions.
Relations between the Dutch Armed Forces and DAF received a further bost during the early fifties due to an order (on 20 December 1951) for 3,600 6x6 artillery tractors and almost 2,800 4x4 weapons carriers from DAF Armoured Vehicle namely the famous YA 328 and the 'Wep' (short for Weapons Carrier) YA 126
It's an impressive story for during those 75 years DAF Armoured Vehicle has translated the wishes and demands of the Dutch Armed Forces into durable, practical and economical transport solutions, moreover, since the first order in 1935, it's delivered more than 35,000 vehicles to the Dutch Armed Forces and not only rigid-chassis and tractors, but also special trailers and armoured and salvage vehicles.
Watch the DAF Armoured Landrover here:
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