Identification of F15 2WD?

[Mike Cecil]

Never say never.

.... just very unusual.

Mike

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Tony,

Forgot to mention: If the transmission is the original one and it's s/n is one of the ones in the lists you will narrow it down to the exact vehicle.

Cheers,

[Ganmain Tony]

Hi Jacques,

Way back in this thread when I started it.........

I posted a picture of the ARN in its usual position on the front shell.

Keith was able to find it in the records. Mike Cecil added some very valuable information about it as well.

Question for you Mike... what is your opinion/s on the ARN being on the door?

The colour the ARN is on is not the disruptive. But a khaki brownish colour painted over the disruptive. It then has the farmer green over the top of that.

[Mike Cecil]

Tony,

It struck me when you first put up the image of the door rubbing that the numerals were in an odd sort of style - the slope on the back of the 5, the curve of the front of the 4. These are hand painted, not stencilled, too.

From what you have said, the numbers are on the third coat: base coat, then KG3, with a disruptive of a sand colour (so early 42 cammo, which fits with its arrival in Aust) then the icky brown on which the numbers are painted.

I have seen a couple of doors with ARNs, (and a single ARN on the front bumper) but these were, from memory, on vehicles that remained in service post-WW2. In the case of 59651, it was hand painted as 59-651 for some reason. Keith's wandering through CMP heaven may throw up some more instances of ARN's on doors?

Your truck's entry in AWM126 appears to show disposal at war's end or soon after the war (red ink entry, etc etc) so I can't offer much more than there are always exceptions to the rule. Did the same icky brown cover the ARN on the front or was the ARN painted onto that, too?

Regards

Mike

[Jacques Reed]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

Hi Jacques,

Way back in this thread when I started it.........

I posted a picture of the ARN in its usual position on the front shell.

Keith was able to find it in the records. Mike Cecil added some very valuable information about it as well.

t.

Hi Tony,

My bad. Should have looked at the beginning of the thread.
Cheers,

[Mike Cecil]

58394, written as 58-394, on the doors of an F60L Garage. Image taken January 1988 at Cowangie, Victoria. Disposal was at war's end in Victoria.

Looked like a nice straight, rust free cab chassis. Doubt it is still there. Wonder what happened to it.

Mike

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

58394, written as 58-394, on the doors of an F60L Garage. Image taken January 1988 at Cowangie, Victoria. Disposal was at war's end in Victoria.

Looked like a nice straight, rust free cab chassis. Doubt it is still there. Wonder what happened to it.

Mike

You don't often see the ARN on the doors of Australian assembled CMPs, very unusual.

[Ganmain Tony]

Firstly,

Thanks Mike and Keith for the comments and photo's. Good to know there have been other trucks in service with the ARN on the door.

I am still pinching myself as this day has proved to be elusive over the past couple of years... but the engine is in!!!!

Still a long way to go and I hope it proves to be a successful start up.

But hey! I am very happy at this point in time.