[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I have just found out that the NEI Government ordered 750 Chevrolet trucks from NV General Motors Java, in Priok, after May 1940.

A week after Pearl Harbor the plant was ordered to be moved 350 miles to Wonosari in the centre of the island, a move that took five days. Luckily 1941 Model Year truck production had been completed. 400 experienced workmen were involved inthe new plant and ten days later 15 trucks per day rolled off the new line rising to 30. Inputs were via a south shore located small port, Tjilatjap [the very congested only port still available]. By February 1942 the NEI Government placed an order for 2,000 trucks [which would have been through the Purchasing Commission in NYC & Washington], but the order was received too late to be fulfilled. 912 [gulp!] Chevrolet four-wheel drive trucks for the NEI Army were then on the water, 96 reached Java whilst the rest were diverted to Australia. Given the photo evidence, I would suggest that at least some were NE Model Chassis-Cabs.