Sunshade!

[David Dunlop]

With the cover installed, can the windscreen be placed in it's "closed and locked" position at all?

If it only works with an open windscreen, then my first guess would be it was intended to stop reflections being spotted by aircraft, when the windscreen was in open mode. The "sunshade" was probably a secondary benefit. Military muckie-mucks were more likely to approve design of things to protect valuable vehicles, and less so to protect the troops who may have run out of their favourite SPF 40 tanning oil!

Did GM Holden ever issue a Master Parts List for the Blitz? Maybe this cover shows up in an edition of it?

Terrific find none the less, and to think you would have missed it if you had stayed home!

Cheers,


David