ID this Trailer Chaps

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Originally Posted by Rob Endersbee

One of my mates has two of these parked in his yard, thought they were Radar, now we know for sure!!. Both of them have singles on the front and duals on the rear. No legs though, or data plates. I wonder what happened to the "House" off all of these??. Perhaps turned into a store room on a farm.

Look forward to some photo's, then we can clean up one of them and get it on display in the Museum.

Rob You are right in suggesting that the "house" off all these trailers ended up as store rooms on a farm. That was the fate of several that were sold by a scrap yard in Quebec, back in the 50's or 60's. The interior electronics were stripped well before they reached the scrap yard. You are probably familiar with the Australian War Memorial photo collection items ID 067915 and 067916 which show trucks and trailers lined up at the 5th Base Ordnance Depot. Moorebank, NSW. Photos of the GL III (c ) deployed in a military role are very rare. Joe Costello who runs the rcsigs militaria website, found a set at the Library and Archives, Ottawa catalogued under RADIOLOCATION . see www.rcsigs.ca/ViewItem/1116 and as thumbnails below.

Cheers Brian