LP2A found and recovered

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Roddy1011

I am attempting to match UK T number with AIF/AFM, C Series and VRN Series where they match. I have had some interesting hits, especially where one finds the correlation to issue fm UK and their subsequent imports into Australia.

Roddy

I didn't think there would be any matches, what hits have you had? The records of ex-WD softskin vehicles transferred/bought by the AIF in North Africa show the original WD class and numbers just prefixed by AIF.

There are plenty of instances of Ex-British refugee vehicles from Malaya or Singapore being issued with C numbers/ARNs but retaining their WD numbers [url=http://orbit.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/forums/showthread.php?t=7759&page=2(Such as these FGTs)[/url], perhaps due to some legal reason, but I have not yet seen any evidence that the UK Carriers in Australia received an ARN, just retained their WD number. As the C numbers/ARN system was not used for Aust carriers much after the 2nd half of '42 (by which time, I would have thought the "Refugee" supply would have dried up anyway), in leiu of a hull serial number, they seem to have just kept the WD T number.