Tac sign

[Mike K]

I recently bought a GPW Jeep at a local auction, today I rubbed back the windscreen panel , found a faint tac sign painted in a square panel on the drivers side, a palm tree above a boomerang, the middle bit is hard to decipher but the palm tree is there on top. Any ideas ? I found a ARN on the bonnet 153146 which doesn't match the chassis nr 11?370 , the engine is GPW 247722 , the tub is a ACM 2 type https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=312857

[Mike K]

It appears to be this particular sign, its very faint but the palm tree is definitely visible, the lower area has all but disappeared
Will upload pics son
https://www.google.com/search?q=aust...9aIiFtUfzZTOPM

[Mike Cecil]

Mike

Palm tree & crocodile over boomerang:

Wartime (black and white) formation sign: 4 Aust Armoured Brigade Group (1943-45).
Post-war (coloured) 1st Armd Brigade (CMF) (1950s -NSW based).

Ref. engine number GPW247722. If the jeep was supplied to Australia with the engine/chassis number matching (rather than as a US-rebuild/reconditioned vehicle), then the engine was originally fitted to ARN 164068, which is shown with two engine changes while in service. So your engine would have entered a rebuild line somewhere, then was later re-issued for installation in another vehicle. Have not been able to locate any GPW chassis numbers of 11X370 (ten possibilities).

Mike

[Mike K]

The sign is barely visible but it's there. Ok Mike thanks for the interesting research. Seems that I have an affinity with the 4th armoured brigade. My C8 had VX65738 scratched on the instruments panel. He served in the 2/4 armoured regiment . The old chap at the auction told me he bought the jeep up at Barnawartha . The rego label shows a 1974 rego number. The rhd conversion is a wonderful example of farmyard engineering....not

[Mike K]

The ARN is matched to a Willys MB . There has been a bonnet swapping at some time in the past. Seen here the sign writer at work: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C72309