Abandoned CMPs thread on REMLR forum.

[Dianaa]

A few blitz folks may be interested in a recent thread on the remlr forum: http://remlr.com/forum/index.php?top...cseen#msg13371 a member was recently travelling in the Kimberly region of WA including the WWII Truscott Airfield and the remains of the transport yard.

Just a tempter.

[Keith Webb]

Thanks for posting this here Diana, they've been fairly well ratted for parts over the years by the look, although there are still some good bits on the cab 12s.

Here's another from the same source.

[Lynn Eades]

So what is the story behind them? Have they slowly been robbed of components or were they abandoned as they are? (cab 12's)
How come the Inters are there Mk5 and MkII?? obviously a different time frame.

[Dianaa]

Also different places.

You need to read the text as the thread is a report of sorts of a trip through the Kimberley region.

The Inters are of interest to REMLR because it should be remembered the REMLR is a military Land Rover forum with an interest in the Inter trucks that were contemporary to the Land Rovers. They also have a modest +/- interest is other military vehicles.

BTW I think you'll find the first image is a (4X4) Mk4 with a F2 tipper body, the second Inter is an F1 (6X6) with an after service tipper body and the last Inter is a F1 with Abbey crane. (they are all International Harvestor Aust. No.1 .... trucks) I'm being pedantic because the 6x6 Inter were never officially the Mk5

[Lynn Eades]

Dianaa, when I was an army apprentice, 4th Medium Battery received 6 new 6x6 G.S. Inters, as gun tractors to tow the 5.5's. As far as I recall they were always called Mk.V's.
(The N.Z. army had dumpers as well, but don't recall when they arrived, as I was based in a different area)
These 6 arrived brand new, fitted with CMP mirrors (small, curved, rectangular)
(I mentioned this to Tony Smith years ago on here) Those mirrors all found their way into the rubbish bins really quickly.(some via me as the mechanic) ( 3 or 4 years ago I bought 2 from Argentina at about $70.00 each!)
Anyhow when I was posted to Singapore in may 75 we (the kiwis) had 4x4 Inters, Ex the Australian forces, from when Australia withdrew.
I really don't recall what the 4x4s were called. I thought they were MkIIs.
What defined the Mk?

[Dianaa]

Hi Lynn

I have absolutely no doubt that troops in the 4th Medium Battery nicknamed them Mk5's even the AWM occasionally got that wrong, but as Mike C will tell us they were never officially called Mk5, either by International Harvester nor the Australian Army. Although when you read some unit diaries, they often got officially mentioned as Mk5 in the books even though its the wrong term.

It would be the same as calling your L1A1 an SLR, we all know what you mean.

The user handbook for an F5 (otherwise nicknamed a Mk5 wrecker)

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

...Anyhow when I was posted to Singapore in may 75 we (the kiwis) had 4x4 Inters, Ex the Australian forces, from when Australia withdrew.
I really don't recall what the 4x4s were called. I thought they were MkIIs.
What defined the Mk?

The official terms for the 4x4 Inters were Truck, Cargo, 2 1/2 Ton, GS, Aust. No.1, Mk ??? The original prototypes and in-service trials were Mk1 and Mk2 (Bruce Ps Mk2)



You can see the design origins from the CMPs

The first in-service production model was the Mk3 and saw service in Borneo and Vietnam, these were the ones with the fibreglass bonnets and fibreglass guards (similiar to the civilian AACO) Official terminology Truck, Cargo, 2 1/2 Ton, GS, with winch, Aust. No.1, Mk3 (this is my Mk3 when I first got it)



This year is the 50th anniversary of the Mk3 entering Army service (1963)

The later 4x4 was the Mk4, has the same cab as the 6x6s "F1 cargo", "F2 dump" and "F5 Wrecker" and in fact many Mk3 got the Mk4 face when they were re-built after SVN. No Mk4 went to SVN. The cab on the Mk4 and 6x6s resembles the civilian butterbox ACCOs.
Truck, Cargo, 2 1/2 Ton, GS, with winch Aust. No.1, Mk4 This is a Gary C's Mk4

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Alse see the thread CMPs at Truscott Airbase, AUS.

H.