GMH wartime pics

[Mike K]

I've not seen some of these pics previously

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r.../BRG+213/121/9

Wartime production 1940-43 was 65,148 units, pretty impressive but was that bodies built or vehicles assembled ?

[Tony Smith]

What engine do we have here? 6 cyl flathead?

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/37B

(Link allows you to zoom in more)

[Tony Smith]

Poor Harold would never be the same after inhaling paint thinners every day for the duration of the war.

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/61A

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Poor Harold would never be the same after inhaling paint thinners every day for the duration of the war.

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/61A

You wonder if the front axle housing survived the thump in a useable condition . Andy Watson, the former Jeep mechanic at Stokoe Motors, told me that 9 out of 10 WW2 Jeep front axle housings he had checked for straightness, were bent to some degree. Andy was a clever mechanic and he knew most of the Jeep part numbers from memory. Andy converted a Austin A40 ute into 4x4 by using Jeep components, even fabricating a special front axle housing using Austin and Jeep parts .

[Mike Cecil]

Dodge power units in a GMH plant: GMH were awarded contracts to assemble, paint and test CKD and SKD vehicles for the Australian forces which included Dodge and jeep, among others.

Mike

[gjamo]

https://www.hrc.org.au/94

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Love those assembly line pics

BRG-213-121-9-36B.jpeg
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/36B

BRG-213-121-9-40B.jpeg
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/40B

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Love those assembly line pics

Attachment 107382
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/40B

Great pics of C60L w/winch assembled for the RAAF, but some of the detail raise questions.

That picture and another, https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/40A, show chalk marks on the vehicles.

One picture shows "Dunlop" written on a front wheel. For Australians, this would at first glance appear to be a well know tyre manufacturer. However, it also shows up on the fuel tank, and Dunlop were not known to be sheet metal fabricators or fuel tank makers. Perhaps it is the name of a quality control inspector, odd that his name is "writ large", rather than a discreet initial or tick.

[Mike K]

Somebody was asking about 10 stud wheels on another thread. Well here is proof GMH made them.

https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/69B

I also spotted the flat head engine . Might be a Inter or Dodge engine , GMH were reconditioning Inters for the army as well as cough cough Ford engines

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Great pics of C60L w/winch assembled for the RAAF, but some of the detail raise questions.

That picture and another, https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/r...+213/121/9/40A, show chalk marks on the vehicles.

One picture shows "Dunlop" written on a front wheel. For Australians, this would at first glance appear to be a well know tyre manufacturer. However, it also shows up on the fuel tank, and Dunlop were not known to be sheet metal fabricators or fuel tank makers. Perhaps it is the name of a quality control inspector, odd that his name is "writ large", rather than a discreet initial or tick.

My guess would be that it a quick visual guide to the wheel or tyre fitting operator down the assembly line to fit that vehicle with Dunlop shod wheels as oppossed to other types that were also available at the fit point.

[Ilian Filipov]

Nice archive. This picture is damaged or sort of, it refuses to download proper (here at least!), so in case somebody has the same problem and wants it, here it is:

https://i.postimg.cc/fTvqQBd4/Austra...an-trailer.jpg

Cheers!

Australian-Diamond-T-969-wrecker-with-van-trailer.jpg

[motto]

The flat head engines in post 2 are Dodge.
Going by the transfer case lever alongside the handbrake lever they are Weapons carrier engines but not T214 3/4 ton.
I am unfamiliar with the 1/2 ton power plant but they had the pedal/s mounted off the engine as these do.

David