Aust. One Ton trailer info. required

[Mike Cecil]

Nope, not really.

What ya see is mostly what they got....

Mike C

[Mike Cecil]

Richard,

If you identify a mistake in a caption, send the details to the Photo Film and sound section general email address (available on the website) for the duty curator to investigate and, if verified, correct. Your email must include the image number, existing caption or part, and your suggested correction.

Regards

Mike C

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Mike,
that e-mail address is there, but it took some finding (photographs@awm.gov.au).
Pics in question are shown on this post;
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ghlight=Humber

Correction advice has been sent.
For the record there are 800 000 photos in the collection, just not the ones I want!
Rich.

[Mike Cecil]

Richard,

Yes, that's always the way: never the images you need/want. When I was writing Mud and Dust it became apparent that there were some glaring deficiencies with the Vietnam coverage, so I went searching and found vets with several images to fill in the holes. Fortunately, they were willing to provide them for the AWMs use in the book, otherwise I'd have been a bit light on in such areas as semitrailers and tank transporters. Just shows that 800,000 images don't cover every aspect of the subject.

Mike C

[Darrin Wright]

Hi all,
I sent a link to this thread to a friend of mine posted to 16 AD for his input, this is his info (cut & paste):

Tail gate art "White rat with the red Eye shoulder launched missile behind" indicates that the trailer was used by the 111th Light Air Defence Bty, 16th Air Defence Regiment;

Christmas tree:- the colours correspond to the numbers (grey is 5, Green is 4, and yellow 3) and the numbers above are the same, this again points to 16 AD Regt, (Numbers are the Unit Designator code - UDC and indicate owner unit)

50 on tac plate again points to 16 AD Regt, kangaroo with crossed rifles and figure 1 indicates the owner higher Command :- First Division of Aust Army.

U/L CoG indicates unloaded centre of Gravity,

As for the QA the exact meaning is lost in history, but this kind of marking would be used to indicate the owner section within 111 Bty, in the same way call sign 21 indicates B Sqn , Alpha Troop. if I was to guess I would say that this was alpha troops, Quartermasters trailer.

Regards

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Darrin, thanks for doing that. I now have more history on this trailer than all my other vehicles combined, and then some.
Rich.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks, Darrin,

Never thought of the Redeye! That certainly dates the trailer: Redeye was in service for a relatively short time, and has been out of service for many years.

QA: the Artillery sub-unit marking info states the 'Q' prefix is for Quartermaster (ie supply) sub-units, with the following letter/numeral being the designator for this vehicle, so pretty much what you said.

Mike C