Another West. Aust. collection
 

Many pics like these

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/d...8-e092b5f6116a

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/f...-fc859807aa8c#

More W.A. scenes
 

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https://collectionswa.net.au/items/8...c-f7b2b4f5a2d8

Middle East

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/c...5-3bd174998939

Too many
 

Too many to choose from.. looks like a Japanese truck with Jap POW's working on it..

Camo license
 

Artistic license ..maybe

Links
 

The links can be found easily by using the search engine

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Wireless set is either a Ack or Charlie set...... a obsolete set still in use by the looks of it , late 1930s.

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/0...d-565b57313df7

Utes in the Middle EAst
 

Looks like a Morris C8 Portee ? A number of these (around 30) are found in the AWM 126 books (some were disposed to Lanes Motors Melbourne, the Morris dealers). A few survivors have been found here in Aust. but usually the Portee body is missing. Used to be one in Kilmore wreckers sitting upside down , the whole yard was scrapped. A friend had two of these but he decided to pass them onto somebody else, a NOS engine was found at Hughes yard, Coburg. The scene could be a Vichy French airfield in Syria ? Seems such a strange scenario, but Australians were fighting Vichy French troops in Syria.

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Scene with a couple of Ford WOT2 and a Morris PU8

Staff car and Morris PU8

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Chaplain
 

Nice Morris PU8

Hello Mike, thanks for sharing these images. However, I am unsuccessful finding the back the photos in the AWM database at https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search.
E.g. when I enter 8385-AMWA49031 or parts thereof in the search engine I get no hits. Do you know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance,

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Hi
 

Hi Hanno

These pics are found in the Western Australia Collections web site . Type in search terms such as: Middle East .

https://collectionswa.net.au/

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Great photos. The Chevrolet truck, ARN AIF L-16041 and my Chev ARN AIF L-16070 both went to the Middle East on 6th October 1941 on the ship Tricolor, spelt the Australian way Tricolour in the AWM books.
The Tricolor spelling was a problem when I searched the WW2 sailing log of the ship.
The log also showed that the ship sailed a couple of days later than the 6th. Maybe the 6th was when it was loaded.
Both trucks returned to Australia and were sold to General Motors Holden when disposed of .
Even though my truck is fairly complete it is nice to have a good reference photo of the camo and it looks like I also have the correct canopy frame accumulated from somewhere.
If I ever get it restored and display it, I will be able to do a correct lather up for a shave.

Shipping Data
 

Unfortunately there are numerous discrepancies between sources for shipping. This was an independent running voyage, ie not in convoy. Great way to get picked off by a surface raider.

Mike

World War 2, Australia Western Australia, 1943
 

Thanks Mike,

I've found some interesting photos:

"View of row of scout cars"
Attachment 135825
Source: https://collectionswa.net.au/items/1...-d27bd80b92dc#

Lynx
 

Lynx scout cars ?

This one is a Ford ute with the separate cab. Quite a few of the pics show the vehicles with the 9th Div. sign and a unit number.

C11ADF I think

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/9...6-ab1088d97a0a

Ford V4061 in Darwin.

Chevy utes

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/2...2-f592071e55dc

More AIF
 

A crowd in the back of a AIF ute . Italian equipment . A ham radio friend who was a M.E. veteran told me he loved riding the Italian ALCE motorbikes.

More stuff....utes
 

Could be a Ford WOT2 in the background of the staged capture scene.

Malaya
 

Spray guns have changed little over the years.

Looks like a Breakdown truck with a gantry visible.. likely it fell into Japanese hands.

Humber
 

Ford ute body turned upside down makes the ideal table.

Think the three trucks lined up are GMC..... better engine than the Chev 216.

Mushroom collecting with the Chev. staff car.

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The guy shaking hands must be a Collingwood supporter...... Magpies.

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Truck with the Penguin sign is a GMC, it has wider grill bars.

The car appears to be a 1941 Buick ?

Last lot
 

Think this is Blamey's BUICK

8 cwt CMP
 

I see a 8 cwt CMP in front of the ute . Looks like a antenna mast on the F8.

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/d...8-8491a48884c5

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/8...2-281984750007

Another F8 I think, the diff has that 'Ford' look to it.

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/8...7-ce7a0fe3cbb3

Bit of everything in this pic

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/f...5-9e8da56ade20

Cab 12 C60L
 

It is surprising, the number of those Cab 12 Chev C60L trucks, you have an example of , that have been found in Aust. There was a very nice example I found up at Orange in NSW. I must have seen at least ten of them over the years, most are in a terrible state of repair. There was a book published, written by a chap who was a driver in a Petrol Company in the M.E., in the appendix he lists the types of vehicles (with reg. numbers) that came back to Aust. with his unit, Cab 12 Chevs and a WOI2 Ford.

Jap staff car
 

Looks like a Japanese staff car.

https://collectionswa.net.au/items/a...f-01b9f57b51ee