[peterinair67]

My New / Old BLITZ. Bought in November last year off a property in Southern Queensland (AUST) from a farmer who had it for over 30-years. He bought it off a Railway Crew who hauled sleepers for QLD Rail. Assume they are the ones who modified the chassis and extended the wheelbase from 101” to the current 127 inches. Has a Timber tray which is 136 inches or 11 ft 4 inches long and a doubled up chassis rail set up. Quite unique….

Still a working vehicle. Complete except for the passenger seat and the driver’s side fuel tank.

Model WO16
(I still have not tracked down the War Office decoding, I still don’t know what the original set up was)

SERIAL 2844400508M

ENGINE WR3816092

C15A

1942

508TH IN THE YEAR BUILT

‘M’ IS FOR MELBOURNE WHERE ASSEMBLED

Looks lt was never re-painted so I am going to start all of the research now on ‘what to do’. Starting with a general clean up to see what I have, followed by the sorting out of the Chassis to keep as is or put back to original. I will start to post pictures in the following few weeks. If anyone else has a model WO16 and can give me some advise, like to hear from you - or anyone else who thinks they can get me on a good path to restore the beast !

Look forward to get to know many of you. Cheers. Peter