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[Andy Cusworth]

Hey Keith,

check this out - a C15a SWB Water tanker ! just scroll down on this webite

http://www.bernardvanmeurs.nl/index....ge=cmp-info-en

I think mine was just a Fire Brigade conversion though

[Keith Webb]

Ahh but that's a Canadian model, we only made the 400 gallon water tanker on the 134" wheelbase.

There were several water tanker trailers here however.

Originally Posted by Andy Cusworth

Hey Keith,

check this out - a C15a SWB Water tanker ! just scroll down on this webite

http://www.bernardvanmeurs.nl/index....ge=cmp-info-en

I think mine was just a Fire Brigade conversion though

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I know of now:

38444M00003
38444M00237 ENGINE # XR392,689 W.O.72
384444M00242 ENGINE # WR3925,672
38444M00286 ENGINE # WR3925,868
38444M00302 ENGINE # WR3925794

Keith, I can't reconcile the other F15A.,...that '7' after the model number looks spurious...yet the engine number looks as though it's a late '43 one.

[Andy Cusworth]

Hey Keith,
whilst looking at vehicles on cmp the yellow looks the same as mine, I assumed that having the red under the yellow it had gome from the Fire Brigade to Rural Fire Brigade but maybe it was a quarry vehicle, it was yellow with pale duck egg blue wingd front and back and the same blue detailing around the water tank

[Mike Cecil]

Gents

I believe the '3' prefix before the '8444' is the year of assembly in Australia, hence assembled and stamped in 1943, and as Keffy has said, in Perth, WA.

Mike C

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The 0/1/2/3/4 prefixes are the MODEL YEAR codes...some 1943 MY trucks were assembled in the next year and there were no 1945 MY CMPs...all were '1944' as the orders had been placed in '44. In 1940 there were 1940 and 1941 Models on the same lines in Oshawa! '40 for Canada (existing orders) and '41 for the British!

Looking at other trucks it appears that they were being assembled in summr 1944 so this truck could have been assembled by Holden's then as well.

[Mike Cecil]

Glad to see someone is paying attention....