or this.............

how about this one too

number 3 as well

Cliff/Hanno:

I think Cliff you are getting a real good handle on the smaller Chevs and picked up a couple of new ones. I had not been looking so much for those as for the 30CWT, I think, and the 3 tonners.

For whatever it is worth, I have put the word out on Swedish, German, Russian and Australian sites I belong to to see if we can flush out someone who either has direct input to our research here or can put us on to someone else who has such info.

I wasted another hour on the Google search engine trying every combination I could think of and only came up with Unit histories, Regimental histories etc. and essentially nothing on GM India or Ford India that was worth squat.

Sadly, 30 years ago I made some excellent contacts in India mainly regarding ordinary American cars sold there and got some interesting stuff. That was when Volvo trucks was trying to sell trucks to the Indian Army and we also were negotiating with the TATA group for license production. I remember we sold a few specialist trucks there but TATA preferred to maintain their licensing agreement with Daimler Benz which I believe remains in force to this day. All I ever got was postal addresses and I doubt they are still usable today. Most of my contacts were already 50-60 years old back then.

As a side note, I tried to get into the Bharat Rakshak discussion group forum tonight but got so tied up in trying to register with Yahoo.com, which you have to do do get into the Forum, that I finally gave up.

Let us keep on trying. These trucks are very interesting and I would like to get a complete story and photo archive of the whole lot of variants if possible as I am sure you would like to also.
Bill

yes Bill I have added about 600 plus pics since I sent you that last updated disk. Finding it hard to do much else at the moment due to a rough patch. Never mind still a lot of valuable info has turned up doing it. A lot of Jap IJA trucks and tanks as well as a lot of info on Aussie WW2 made aeroplanes and the numbers built. Even found a sad pic of hundreds of Beauforts being broken up for scrap in 1947.

Also added a lot of aussie armor pics as well. BUT my main focus is on softskins still and I am still on the prowl.

Cheers
Cliff:salute:

Re: Re: Bombay Station Wagons
 

Another one of these?

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/AFS.../AFSL22-06.jpg
Caption: AFS staff members [in India], halted by a swollen river, anticipate a meal of sweet corn roasted by friendly natives who swam the river to get it.

Source: http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/AFS...etters/22.html

Here's a still. Thanks for the heads-up, Nick.

Attachment 98716

Source: https://britishpathe.com/video/over-the-hump-1

Hello Nick,

Your old link is dead now, but searching the British Pathe site I found the title "Occupation Troops In Iran" - https://britishpathe.com/video/occup...troops-in-iran

Looks like the typical 3-ton "Bombay Chev" to me.

Thanks,
Hanno


Attachment 98717 Attachment 98718 Attachment 98719 Attachment 98720

Nick, sorry but I cannot find back the title you referred to. Mind you, it's been a while..... :doh:

Thank,
Hanno

1943-1945 Chevrolet Victory Cab
 

Not a Bombay Chev, although the coach built cab isn't standard - who would have ordered such a cab when mass produced pressed steel cabs had become the norm for mass production?

Edited to add: I have been assured it is not an Australian cab.

"1943-1945 Chevrolet Victory Cab Being Worked On Truck Factory Press Photo"
Attachment 110560

"1943-1945 Chevrolet Victory Cab Truck Factory Press Photo. Completed Victory cab with side curtains rolled up."
Attachment 110559

Some more Indian Pattern Chevrolets:

"Three men standing in front of a truck. Date [ca. 1940 - ca. 1941]"

Attachment 115180
Source: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/309759


"Brahmaputra ferry to Burma. One of the British soldiers who run the Brahmaputra ferry takes control of a truck heading for Burma. Pte. Chapman (Mooreswater, Lisheard, Cornwall) Three-quarter length, to left, wearing overalls and brimmed hat, tattoo on right forearm."

Attachment 115181
Source: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/4171058

Someone has posted these pics on Teambhp Forum. Now I am posting here.I think it's from some album it states "SHOT TAKEN IN RUN FROM POONA TO SECUNDERABAD WITH CSBC SEPT 1941"(INDIA). I am trying to get more photographs from him but till now no success. Expert kindly comments on this what does this CSBC means. Admin if this post is irrelevant kindly delete this Thankyou

Poona to me used to be a Australian training camp in Australia.
It had a railway platform called Poona about 3 km away from the main camp which still existed until the early 1980s.
I think the location was north of Albury......west of Wagga on the main southern railway line.
Some of the back ground in the pictures remind me of the areas country side.
A Photo showing a truck, some troops and a Poona sign earlier in this thread may be from the area I described.

Wasn't Kapooka?

Only Australian Poona I can find is near Fraser Island in Queensland.

The AWM caption on that Poona photo says it is Karachi with airmen on their way to Poona RAF Base.

My mistake...the place I was thinking of was called Polona.

Hi ,

Recently I was looking more about my truck and I found this link

"https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/36886-indian-army-vehicles-in-indian-in-ww2/"

and it fascinates me also i came across one documentary life of Harry Birrell
that documentary is mainly from his life in CBI theater. I definitely recommend this documentary.

"https://www.imcdb.org/v001363080.html"
https://www.imcdb.org/i001363080.jpg

here you can see the formation sign of IV Corps on the left side on the mudguard.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._corps.svg.png


Seniors kindly comment you can clearly see the Indian Pattern body style. I am planning to visit North East of India hope will get more info on these trucks , But seems we are having Covid restriction so I have to wait for a while , Admin if you find this post not relevant kindly delete it. thank you :)

Ambulance ?