[Ken Smith]

Good day friends,
I recently purchased a good C60L rolling chassis with chassis number 38443M00001,I am guessing that this was the first C60L put together by GMH for 1943 in Melbourne.
Today I looked at a mint 1945 C60L.The plate on the dash reads like this,
CHASSIS MODEL 4X8443
CHASSIS SERIAL 4-8443-71597
ENGINE I didn't write it down
DATE OF DELIVERY 5-5-45 1ND (It is 1ND not IND,maybe a stampo/typo.)
The ARN is 77821
I thought that the ARN was a bit early but I will check with the War Memorial records.The ARN stencil is original as are the tyre pressure stencils.The truck has a canvas covered round roof hatch.
The CMP was bought by the farmer from a local disposal dealer in 1956 it had a Australian wooden body with Australian steel tyre carrier and toolbox,all long gone.
The truck was repaired to condition 4E at 24810 miles on 5 DEC 1955 for Northern Command.
The truck doesn't have the rear chassis extended like the workshop trucks so I think that it would have been just a GS.
Would this truck have been built completely as a cab chassis in Canada,or like the earlier cab 13s shipped as a chassis then fitted with Australian cab.
The only pictures I can find of the round roof hatches is on trucks in Korea during the Korean war,the trucks have Australian registration numbers.
This truck is deep bronze green,which reminds me there was another round roof hatch truck in town untill about 15 years ago then it disappeared.
I have waited 31 years to buy this truck,I will try and post some photo's when I get it home in the next couple of months,I have to wait for the farmer to remove the grain body fitted to it.
Cheers Ken