Ford NSW Aust LP2 1941
Several months back I posted this pic of a Bren Gun Carrier that I found, I have since recovered it and cleaned it out.
It is a Ford NSW LP2 made in 1941, Hull #1864.
This vehicle was sold off at Bandiana Vic after the war and was bought by Baker Motors a car dealership (now the Mitsubishi/Hyundai dealership) in the area, they removed all the mechanicals to on sell for local vehicles. The hull was then sold to the Electricity co in the area, who bought them for the steel. In the 1950s steel was short, when steel could be more readily bought the left over or un-cut hulls were sold off to the local farmers in the area. This vehicle was bought for it's steel, fortunatly the farmer never got around to really cutting it up. It still has many little fiddly bits and I have used it for this purpose, to measure and copy to reproduce the parts that I will need at a later stage. I am currently short on space.
I will post quite a few photos to show.
The vehicle how I found it
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