Mick Norton Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 The Sappers used to have Patterson water purification units in the 1960s/1970s. I attach photos of same used on Operation Crown in Thailand at the Hong Khong Base Cap on the road project in 1967. Has anyone any additional information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Norton Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 Another image in colour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike C Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 The Australian Army deployed the Patterson Type 6B water purification trailer to South Vietnam, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Norton Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 Mike, Many thanks. Any images? Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike C Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Mick, there are very few images of the Patterson trailers in use - not a subject most photographers bothered with. This is the only one I have found of a Patterson in use in SVN, despite there being some 12 deployed during the time the Australian Army was in-country. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C239354 It was also published on page 243 of my book 'Mud and Dust'. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 46 minutes ago, Mike C said: The Australian Army deployed the Patterson Type 6B water purification trailer to South Vietnam, too. Mike, I recall seeing one in the RAE Museum at Moorebank in 1992, I recognised it as we had one come in REME workshops (in UK) in the late 70's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Norton Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 Mike, Many thanks for sight of the image. I hope the purification unit was as successful for the RAE as it was for the REs at that time. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Norton Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Clive, Thanks for the input. Great image. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Mick it comes from Military Engineering, Vol VI, Water Supply & Petroleum Installations, 1956 There are no references to Patterson, although there is this apparatus mounted on a two-wheeled steerable trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peejay Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Hello Mick. I was at 'Crown' in '66 tho not on the road project. My place was in the Power station at the airfield. My reason for this email is that I'm sure I recognise the guy in the second pic, stood with his hands in his pockets. If it's who I think it is, I joined RE boys service with him. (Can give his name if asked). Another reason is that back in Singapore I was charged with a Patterson 3/4 ton water purification water trailer. It had a 1000gal tank just like your pics. 42 Cdo spotted it and then requested it every time they went out into the Ulu, so guess who went with it. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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