Tac sign
 

I recently bought a GPW Jeep at a local auction, today I rubbed back the windscreen panel , found a faint tac sign painted in a square panel on the drivers side, a palm tree above a boomerang, the middle bit is hard to decipher but the palm tree is there on top. Any ideas ? I found a ARN on the bonnet 153146 which doesn't match the chassis nr 11?370 , the engine is GPW 247722 , the tub is a ACM 2 type https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=312857

Could be this
 

It appears to be this particular sign, its very faint but the palm tree is definitely visible, the lower area has all but disappeared
Will upload pics son
https://www.google.com/search?q=aust...9aIiFtUfzZTOPM

Formation sign
 

Mike

Palm tree & crocodile over boomerang:

Wartime (black and white) formation sign: 4 Aust Armoured Brigade Group (1943-45).
Post-war (coloured) 1st Armd Brigade (CMF) (1950s -NSW based).

Ref. engine number GPW247722. If the jeep was supplied to Australia with the engine/chassis number matching (rather than as a US-rebuild/reconditioned vehicle), then the engine was originally fitted to ARN 164068, which is shown with two engine changes while in service. So your engine would have entered a rebuild line somewhere, then was later re-issued for installation in another vehicle. Have not been able to locate any GPW chassis numbers of 11X370 (ten possibilities).

Mike

pic
 

The sign is barely visible but it's there. Ok Mike thanks for the interesting research. Seems that I have an affinity with the 4th armoured brigade. My C8 had VX65738 scratched on the instruments panel. He served in the 2/4 armoured regiment . The old chap at the auction told me he bought the jeep up at Barnawartha . The rego label shows a 1974 rego number. The rhd conversion is a wonderful example of farmyard engineering....not

arn
 

The ARN is matched to a Willys MB . There has been a bonnet swapping at some time in the past. Seen here the sign writer at work: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C72309