Mobile Cinema Jeeps
 

Thanks to Frederic and his excellent scale model. https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/43876-jeep-...comment-483377

Going through the AWM collections , I have found evidence of the Aust. army Mobile Cinema vehicles in use as early as 1942. These were used in the S.W.P.A. as a means of entertaining the troops, I believe some were even located in forward areas of operations.

The Jeep cinema variants seemed to have come along later on and the jeeps appear to have been set up or modified to carry a generator and the associated equipment . I am not sure, but in a few cases there may have been an auxiliary generator under the bonnet ?

Would make a interesting full scale jeep for displays ! Would anybody know the colours of the MOBILE CINEMA script seen on the windscreen panel ?

More
 

Jeep ARN 127712 certainly got around, from Brisbane to the Dumpu Valley in PNG https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C281905

Trove
 

Trove has revealed a little more.

And. SYDNEY, N.S.W. 1944-11-05. MOBILE CINEMA JEEPS AT VICTORIA BARRACKS, UNDER THE CONTROL OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF AMENITIES.

AWM pic 72106
 

Looks like a 35mm projector, image quality would have been excellent.

Projectors
 

Not sure about the brand of the projectors that the jeep cinema units used but some of the mobile cinemas that employed larger MCP trucks had projectors that were made by the Sydney based business C&W http://ammpt.com.au/cumming-and-wilson-projectors/

This article mentions C&W projectors https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-110800487...ge/n5/mode/1up