16" 8 bolt Split Rims for 1.5 ton Australian Chevrolet Trucks

[Andrew H.]

Hi Phillipe,
All this navel-gazing about rim sizes and bolt spacings is academic unless it is matched by equally diligent research about correct body styles, numbering and truck names – things that are far more readily visible to anyone admiring your truck.
For example, if the truck you are restoring has the "waterfall" (AKA "art deco") grille, that type of truck was not used by the LRDP. The Long Range Desert Patrol used the earlier 1939-40 WA Chevrolets which were significantly different in appearance. In the LRDP “Te Hai” was actually a Ford V8 15cwt and was numbered T3 (T9 was “Tutira”). It was not until March 1942 (by which time the LRDP had become the LRDG) that the waterfall grille trucks (eg 1533X2 and 1311X3) appeared in the LRDG. There are excellent books available on all of these topics.