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  1. Hi Rupert. The ex-West. Aust. Humber is in Melbourne undergoing a long term restoration. I believe a UK immigrant imported the Humber, late 1950s. There are more than one in N.Z. A N.Z. govt. Department imported a few in the 1950s.. think it was from Hong Kong. Matthew Lombard has the remains of one.
  2. A few examples have survived down under. During the later years of the war, there was a plea or demand coming from farmers and primary producers for light utility vehicles for farm use. The Federal govt. approached the UK with a order/request to supply these vehicles. Newspaper reports indicate that, initially 1200 tillies were to be shipped to Australia but it appears the actual number that arrived was far less. In mid 1945, adverts appeared in newspapers across the land announcing the arrival of the tillies, ranging from Tasmania across to Perth West. Aust. A permit was required in order to purchase one of these vehicles. The few tillies that did arrive, ( maybe 200-300 ) were sold to civilian farmers through Standard, Morris and other official dealerships.. These were brand new vehicles, not used. Some of these dealers would have received as few as two or three tillies to sell, one dealer advert has just one Standard available. The most numerous survivors are Standards, with only a very few of the other types still in one piece. I know of only one Morris tilly restored to running condition, a mammoth effort that required parts from two or three wrecks and much fabrication of new panels involving many hours of labour.
  3. Brisbane scenes with K2/Y and a Ford GTB bomb loading truck. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189286
  4. Pics of Defence Dept. vehicles assembled in Melbourne, Australia. The date and location needs to be confirmed but these pics are filed with many other Victorian Railways workshops , Newport, Melbourne pics. Likely the chassis were imported and the bodywork was made in the Newport railways workshops, Melbourne. The pics can be downloaded in high resolution: lower LH corners of the pics. https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4D71D701-F7DD-11E9-AE98-738A6CBC43E1?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4D705060-F7DD-11E9-AE98-BD1E9134E3B8?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4AF6287B-F7DD-11E9-AE98-9FF18BF347A3?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4B051CA6-F7DD-11E9-AE98-471A15430933?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4D750B53-F7DD-11E9-AE98-1F8ACE6741E7?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4D6E548F-F7DD-11E9-AE98-E30B53BD03EE?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4B03E425-F7DD-11E9-AE98-8FC4BAB44529?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4D6C0A9E-F7DD-11E9-AE98-9185A431FD70?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/4AF7880C-F7DD-11E9-AE98-61EA83F30863?image=1 https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/CA62EAAE-F821-11E9-AE98-BD1CD57F7960?image=1
  5. Looking through the Australian Army vehicle registration ledgers I have found: vehicles listed as refugee cargo. Morris C8 2 pounder Portees ( approx. 30) Thornycroft Searchlight trucks X 6 reg. 50213 - 50218 Albion House type workshop and Breakdown trucks 50201 - 50209 Bedford OY ( approx. 10 ) Albion recovery truck 6wh. 50264 Leyland 6wh Recovery and B/down trucks Bedford MWC Water tank trucks 50277 - 50291 Canadian Ford FGT gun tractors 50293 - 50302 Dodge 3 ton GS Dyson Sound ? Locator
  6. The Aust. made GM-H Chevrolet cabs are unique , they are fitted with quarter vent door windows and the kick out rectangular vent panels each side of the cowl..
  7. Japanese POWs with a Nissan or Toyota truck.
  8. Few more pics of MCP vehicles and other stuff. The Aust. army had a policy of only taking Ford and Chevrolet vehicles overseas, this was in order to reduce the maintenance and spare parts problem. A number of the Aust. army's vehicles were lost in the Greece debacle and more were lost in Malaya.
  9. Hi Chris Not sure if you refer to the main carrier for the 11 set . The W.S 11 manual does have a carrier No. 1 listed. ZA9297. I do have one, it's a multi-part carrier that screws together. You can adjust the length of the carrier to accommodate the location of the Power Supply L.P No. 1 to either on top of or beside the set.
  10. Hi The Australian Guy Quads . I found these newspaper snippets and adverts . I am not sure about how these arrived in Aust. , not directly from Europe, but more likely they were issued to Australian units in the Middle East and then shipped to Aust. with the returning Aust. units. I have not found any Guy Quads listed in the Aust. army registration books , the AWM 126 vehicle ledgers are available online. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1424610 By 1944, the army here had standardized on CMP and US type vehicles . The British W.D. type vehicles that were held in vehicle parks were deemed to be Non-Standard and some of these were released for sale to essential users as early as Nov. 1944 . The essential users were: primarily farmers and bush fire brigades. The bush fire brigades were allocated some of the 15 cwt Ford WOT2 and Morris CS8 and Bedford MW vehicles. I found a newspaper pic. dated Feb. 1945 , a Guy Quad being used on a farm near Temora NSW. The West.Aust newspaper article is misleading as I've never heard of any of the Guy Quads being found over there, all of the survivors have been found in NSW or Victoria.
  11. A number of these arrived in Australia as 'refugee cargo' . Refugee cargo was equipment destined for the Dutch East Indies or British controlled ports such as Singapore , the Japanese had overrun these places, the ships at sea were diverted to Australia . Some of the Austins were issued to Aust. Army Ambulance Company units that were based in Melbourne ,Victoria and other locations i.e. N.S.W. The pic is of a K2/Y that was used around Melbourne by the 3rd Aust. Ambulance Car Company, it appears to have retained it's British number. I found a list of reg. numbers of vehicles issued to the 2nd Aust. Amb. Transport Company (based in NSW) in 1942. Interesting, the Austins are referred to as 'Indian type' this was the official Australian army nomenclature for this type vehicle. The Aust. army had many MCP type Ambulances, mostly Ford and Chevrolet and some Dodge and International 'Indian Pattern' . The red annotations refer to the disposals purchaser . 'Larke Hoskins' would have been a Austin car dealership in NSW. One K2/Y was sold to the Sydney Metropolitan Sewerage Drainage Board . The Disposals Commission had a policy of offering the surplus trucks to the various Government Departments, then next in line were the original manufacturer or their agents in Australia, then last in line , the public. Some disposals 'open' auctions were held in remote locations but the buyers had to transport the vehicles a long distance. Newspaper advert from a Melbourne soft drink business 1948. Travelling draper business for sale. Post-war scene in South Aust. possibly the Woomera rocket range. A surviving wreck that was found in NSW.
  12. Hi Clive Not sure. Just a guess. Maybe that particular unit were issued with Saracens after the regular full time army changed over to M113s in 1964. The part time CMF tended to be issued with older equipment like the WW2 era US6 Studebakers which were still in service in the 1960s .
  13. In Australia with the Citizens Military Force (CMF) part time army . Wireless set is a W.S. 62 mk2 made by PYE Victoria in 1955/56 a obsolete WW2 set put into production again. More pics https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5b7221f421ea670f609a25d4 https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5e5483c921ea671378c52351 https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5e5481bd21ea671378bf1c30
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