PROV pics

[goanna]

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

Edited October 18, 2023 by goanna

[mammoth]

What an amazing find. The ambulance is described by Rod Dux as built on a 2 ton Thornycroft chassis in 1915, Similarly the workshops are built on Garford, Commer and Daimler chassis. Note that they have sprags to act as roll-back brakes which was part of the initial British WD specification.