CJ2A jeep West.Aust

[Mike K]

1949 Advert from a South. Aust. dealer. I think some of these early CJ2A and 3A imports were LHD

Jeep truck was available in Australia as early as 1949.

Stokoe Motors were marketing the Station Wagon as early as 1947. Featuring "Right Hand Drive"

[rob love]

With regard to the right hand jeeps in North America for deliverys like the mail, I believe these were under the DJ model as opposed to CJs. The ones I saw were 2 wheel drive

[Jacques Reed]

Yes, they were the DJ model. My Dad was a postman and I remember when the 2WD Jeeps in right hand drive were introduced. Dad never drove them but was issued with a three-wheel scooter, the "Mailster" as they were called when the Post Office decided to mechanize his suburban mail delivery route. Prior to that he had a walking mail route of 5 miles a day he told me. After that they increased the size of the route, and he covered 7 miles a day.

Rural mail delivery postmen supplied their own vehicles as opposed to the suburban delivery route postmen who were issued vehicles. My dad was a workmate of our rural delivery postman and I seem to remember he told me he had a long wait for a "special order" right hand drive Jeep.

[David Dunlop]

Did the DJs used by Canada Post have a sliding door to make things easier on the rural routes?

David

[Mike K]

Some pics from the Willys Aust. F/B. Early CJs in Australia

This looks like LHD CJ2A or 3A with a home made windscreen ? And a RHD CJ3A mocked up as a M38 (with a VMVC sticker on the W/screen).....The NSW CJ2A was for sale recently.

I forgot to post this link - looks like a RHD CJ2A

https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/download...b6419182_2.jpg

https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/download...b6419182_1.jpg

[Jacques Reed]

Good Day,

i found another family archive photo which may be of interest and actually has military connections.

The photo is of our family camping at Indian River Delaware about 1954.
The interesting part is the trailer is a Ben Hur WW2 trailer.

Dad bought it new as best I remember from a surplus outlet. I think it was all wood construction as by the time dad sold it in 1973 it was very rotted. Later war ones were all steel construction I believe.

They were not designed to be towed behind Jeeps military or otherwise, but dad fitted a pintle hook to the back of the jeep shown in the background and it worked. Carried all the camping gear for our annual vacations at the seashore for a few years.

He did some outright dangerous things by todays standard such as carting a ton of anthracite coal in it 40 miles from the coal region of PA to our home for the coal fired home heating system. he only did it once, however, until mom put her foot down and demanded we get it from a local supplier. Winding, steep, roads in a Jeep with a ton of coal behind him was a recipe for a disaster.

Hope this is of some interest.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

Good Day,

i found another family archive photo which may be of interest and actually has military connections.

The photo is of our family camping at Indian River Delaware about 1954.
The interesting part is the trailer is a Ben Hur WW2 trailer.

Dad bought it new as best I remember from a surplus outlet. I think it was all wood construction as by the time dad sold it in 1973 it was very rotted. Later war ones were all steel construction I believe.

They were not designed to be towed behind Jeeps military or otherwise, but dad fitted a pintle hook to the back of the jeep shown in the background and it worked. Carried all the camping gear for our annual vacations at the seashore for a few years.

He did some outright dangerous things by todays standard such as carting a ton of anthracite coal in it 40 miles from the coal region of PA to our home for the coal fired home heating system. he only did it once, however, until mom put her foot down and demanded we get it from a local supplier. Winding, steep, roads in a Jeep with a ton of coal behind him was a recipe for a disaster.

Hope this is of some interest.

The trailer in your pic looks bigger/higher than the jeep is.