rising sun
 

I was wondering if anyone else has run across these stencils on vehicles of the rising sun, I removed the engine bonnet from a 1942 GMC 6x6 a few months back and it had the same rising sun stencil or painting ? The truck is at a remote abandoned US airbase could this be a Unit designation ?

Unit Desig?
 

Gordon,

The Rising Sun I photographed was the Aussie one, as worn by all our soldiers & appeared on a lot of trucks. Whereas the one you have, I think, is a Unit tag.

The Base where you got teh truck part from might give you a clue to the unit stationed there in WWII, and then Google is your friend...

Incidentally, the photo I have added is the modern version, & not the WWII version from the Australian Army (www.defence.gov.au) website.

Ian

My little C15 has rising sun , we redid the stencil according to the original size, about 8" square.

The Rising Sun over the boomerang was the unit sign of HQ units but the hand painted one on the GMC bonnet is an unofficial one.. :salute:

Date Stamp
 

Think in American :teach:... September 13, 1944...

The history website or http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/september_13.html shows a few battle dates..

There are a few significant dates at that time... One may be intimately connected with that vehicle...

Ian

Nowhere near me
 

I found these at Inverell if they are not known I will post more pictures. :cheers:

More pics!
 

Yes please Robert! :thup2:

yes please especially the International truck. :thup2:

First the blitz...........

Next the Inter...........

Last the carrier......... am I finding enough variety for you yet Bob?

Also present were these two studebakers one going the other parked up the back. No obvious id left.

Variety
 

Hi Robert - yes thanks. BUT what was the Carrier Hull Number?

Bob

Gordons
 

Can you give me the name and location of the abandoned US base, I may be able to contribute more info.

Thanks

Col

Sorry Bob not enough experience with carriers I saw the plate and photographed it and forgot all about other id. :bang:

Hull number
 

If you scroll further up you'll see the first post Robert made...

http://www.class-five.com/~mlu/forum...9&d=1239617670

Sorry
 

Hi Robert - I must have had a feuge when I missed the image of the data plate. Thanks Keefy.

Bob

Feuge
 

Nice choice of words. I had to look it up: :yappy:

Darn I now know what is wrong with me LOL :yappy: :teach:

That is an odd and interesting International. Thanks Robert. :thup:

OK Bob now we need a complete history including the madin name of the first driver's mother :cheers:

Carrier 2137
 

Hi Robert - the only other manufacturing detail I have is the Carrier was made under contract no. MOV.1145. The first driver, an Army test driver, was Lance Corporal Ernest Entwhistle whilst his mother Dimitria, a Greek immigrant who married Throgmorton Entwhistle, had the maiden name of Giannopoulopouloppulus.

Bob

Details
 

And let me guess... they're related to the Moseleys too. :p

I've herd a rumour that the blitz in post #12 has been bought by a banana bender. :cheers:

Two more Blitz's have appeared in Batlow........... :cheers:

Where did the word "B;itz"
 

G'day Fellow MLUers,

As a kid I always knew the CMP trucks just by the name "blitz". What I did not know, then or now, is how they became associated with the name. In fact it was only last year that I became familar with the CMP name for blitz trucks. As they were just always called Blitzs.

I know that in WWII London endured the German bombing and it was called the "blitz". Also that nice police officers set up booze buses when the have a "blitz" for drink drivers. Oh and as a kid the band The Sweet had a hit the Ballroom Blitz.

So how did such a name get stuck on CMP trucks in Australia. Or are its origins lost or corrupted over time?

Kind Regards
Lionel

Hi Lionel

Blitz is actually a German word and means "lightning, flash, thunderbolt" etc. The term "Blitzkrieg" has been also used for the early German WW2 attacks on France, Holland etc.

Until I went for the first time to Australia, for me a Blitz truck was always a German Opel Blitz. They were the backbone of the WW2 German Army. Opel belongs to GM since 1929. That's probably why the term "Blitz" swapped over the pound.

Greetings
Chris

G'day Chris,

Thanks for the interpretation Chris - the backbone of both sides war efforts are different trucks named a blitz ...I think is called irony.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Irony?
 

I think it was the Brits and Aussies 'taking the piss' really.

They were also called 'Blitz Buggies', 'Blitz Wagons' and 'Desert Blitz.'

In my search for parts for my own Blitz, I've also come across several Blitzes and other trucks in this part of the world; the trouble is, for most of them i found them too late! There's a Ford Blitz out near Mossgiel that has been sitting there for an age, but according to the bloke whose place it's on, has been sold to a fellow who is "gonna do it up" eventually. The bloke pops out occasionally to make sure it's still there, but doesn't take it away!

There were also several more Blitzes that made their way from the direction of Ivanhoe on the back of Scrappy trucks, some in fairly good nick, and another that was a mere 15km away from me, and I didn't know about it until it too had been sold to the Scrappies!

Down at Willanthry, where i got my Blitz, there's the remains of a Studebaker 6X6 (no wheels, no engine) that had been a firetruck, and a bit further up the road there's a Diamond Reo in not too shabby nick that was also a Willanthry fire engine. So all in all, these trucks are everywhere, but you really do have to look out for them!

Another truck has turned up near me :cheers: