GMH ( Australia ) archive items

[Mike K]

This may be of interest to the Aussie readers :

I have on loan a 1/2 hour video colour film made by GMH in 1944 . I think The film was intended to be a PR exercise by GMH , it depicts the various wartime projects GMH were involved in with scenes of each main plant . Fishermens Bend Vic , Woodville SA, Pagewood in NSW and Brisbane .

Some nice shots of CMP's including a row of new Chev C60L's at Fishermens bend . The GMH built 6 pounder AT gun is seen being test fired in SA . The downside is , it was shot on rather low quality film stock , there is no sound track , I suspect it was never released to the public and it is badly over exposed in places and the film shot inside the factories suffers from low light levels .

The video is available from the Sth Aust. state library . GMH still owns the copyright but its available to anyone for personal research etc.

Another item is , I now have a copy of the official GMH War record , the 180 page book published by GMH in 1946 . It details all the 1939-45 wartime projects . Much emphasis is placed on aircraft and gun production but it does go into soft skin vehicles as well.

Mike