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[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

Here is the article from British and American Tanks of WWII that showed me the first pictures I had of Koala in action. ( Chamberlain and Ellis arms and Armour press 1969 ) . The name Koala was still quite visible when she was recovered. Platypus had most the top removed , however the front hatches and turret were still laying next to Koala when they were recovered.

The AWM folk provided some better shots of Koala and some of the NSW division that I have someplace .

hi Gina,
That looks like Wallaby in the foreground of your attachment and on exercise in Victoria.

There are some excellent photos of the 5 that were sent to the NSW unit on the State Library website. Seem to recollect they were taken at the Victoria barracks and looking like they had just been shipped in.

[Richard Farrant]

Here is a link to a photo of the NSW based tanks as they arrived from England in 1937. Taken at Victoria Barracks (not Paddington, got my London train stations muddled up!)
http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemL...x?itemID=11291

[Richard Farrant]

Found a couple of photos of Platypus, rest are held hostage on a broken pc.
One is as completed in Mike Stallwood's yard in England and the other is of the instrument panel I restored, but still awaiting the temp guage to be returned.

[Mrs Vampire]

Very Nice

[Mrs Vampire]

Koala and platypus being rescued from a farm near Griffith. Lionel and his wife Jeanette driving their Clubman recently featured in a photo by Keith bring the FGT back from Sydney

The Truck belonged to Bert Barker. Bert got platypus . It was cut down to transport rice during the wet.

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they are photos of slides I will scan the slides one day and get better shots but back in the oldern days taking a photo of a slide wa about the only way to transfer them to prints. .

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

Koala and platypus being rescued from a farm near Griffith.

The Truck belonged to Bert Barker. Bert got platypus . It was cut down to transport rice during the wet.

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Thanks for the photos, Gina. It fills in another gap in the history of Platypus.

regards, Richard

[colin jones]

Great photo's. The two vickers I have are "Bowerbird" and "Wombat" which thanks to a fellow MLU member reunited the complete set of bogies, return rollers and both Main cross axles to Bowerbird. It does go to show that you should never say "Never". I am hoping that there maybe a turret or 2 still out there.
Colin.