[David_Hayward (RIP)]

This has me really puzzled! I knew that the Phillipines drove on the left [until when? at least 1958] but I cannot add much more. It appears from my files that GM Java did not supply the Phillipines. I have no idea who did until 1940..it may have been the former GM Export Company to a local distributor. Anyhow, the former GENERAL MOTORS CHINA renamed itself GENERAL MOTORS OVERSEAS CORPORATION. GMOC set up a Manila Branch office on 10 October 1940, and also the same day in Shanghai [closed November 1941]. The Regional Director for the Far Eastern Region of GM Overseas Operations was captured by the Japanese and spent the war in a Phillipines prison camp together with five other executives.

Despite all the information I have I can see no evidence of supply from GM Java. It would appear that GMOC, Manila were supplied from the US, in which case all I can put forward is a Chevrolet-Thornton 6 x 4 chassis [1941 Models were ordered by the French and taken over by the British] if it is a Chevrolet, or a local conversion similar to several that were available in the UK from 1925 onwards on Chevrolet and later Bedford chassis.

Is that a 'woodie' Ford wagon on the left? Perhaps Australian C11ADF ex-Mid-East or did the US forces have similar wagons?