goanna Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 (edited) 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 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammoth Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goanna Posted July 28 Author Share Posted July 28 This is a State library QLD pic https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE176108 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammoth Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 1920's A1 or A2?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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