AWM acquisition?

[Mike Cecil]

..... and does it matter at this point? Aust wartime service is surely enough: now the AWM has the full range of the more common wartime wheeled field artillery tractors used by Aust forces between 1939 and 1945 (and beyond): 'Tractor, Artillery, (Aust) LP3/3A' (can't remember which!), 'Tractor, Artillery (Cdn)' and 'Tractor, Artillery (Aust) No.9': now that's a great result.

I was also puzzled by the reference to 'distressed' cargo as an alternative to 'refugee' cargo. Well, learned something new again: it was the term applied to such cargoes coming to Australia in the US official history!

Mike

[David Dunlop]

So why are they using an American description for a Canadian vehicle that arrived and served in Australia? Too much knowledge is a dangerous and oft confusing thing.


David

[Mike Cecil]

Now that's a fair question, but one I am unable to answer.

Mike

[motto (RIP)]

A bit like the Kokoda Trail / Kokoda Track moniker. Who knows how these things get started? Not all discussion is logical.

Dave