Australian Army Vehicle Registers AWM126

[David Dunlop]

Could the Buffalos relate to the growing problems the French were having in their colonial Vietnam?

David

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Could the Buffalos relate to the growing problems the French were having in their colonial Vietnam?

David

Yes I reasoned that was the likely scenario and the transfer dates (1954)
tend to support that suggestion.

Found this: Light tanks Mk3 USA origin . Were these Stuarts or the M-H Tanks ?

[Mike K]

Found four of the AEC Armoured Command Vehicles
138720 138734 139641 139891

Tracked truck: 139974 went to the PMG

[Mike K]

This is a rare one:

Captured Jap truck 169634 Sold to Saville bros. Was this vehicle sold up in the islands or was it sold here ?

More captured at 169568

Quite a few more at 169515 including a Nissan water cart !

153060 list of captured , seems most of it went to the Dutch

The Z special unit, the behind the lines cloak and dagger unit, got CCKW radio trucks 158616

One of the SPA Italian tractors 153222

[David Dunlop]

Mike.

Would the Japanese vehicles have been items of opportunity Australian forces came across and put to their own use for the duration of the war? And I wonder how many, if any, made it back to Australian and were sold off? They would make a very interesting restoration project.

David

[Mike K]

We think there was a Kurogane 4x4 registered in Victoria at one time. Before the system was computerized , the Victorian reg. records were available on the old card system and you could have a look through them - not possible these days. The owners name cards were all destroyed in a purge. BTW you can look up any current reg number on the Vicroads website and get the engine number, chassis number and the registration status ..freedom of info !

Some of those captured vehicles in the ARN registers maybe would have belonged to civilian planters or maybe missionaries or the Dutch administration authorities. The captured sedans would have been used by high ranking Jap officers. It's a miracle that any of those cars survived Japanese ownership for 3 1/2 years

[Matt Austin]

Just wondering; using the AIF 1-6112 register as an example. I note that there are a few missing entries, with some pages around number 3000 being almost empty. Would this be unallocated numbers, or unrecorded entries? I've seen a couple of pencilled notations that say (example 760 to 766) no record of these numbers ever having been used, but there are plenty of blanks with nothing noted.

Seems strange that there'd be big gaps, although I know how administrative errors can appear today, despite the computerised systems at our disposal. So, I could imagine errors in the past, but I'm happy to be corrected.

Cheers,
Matt