Now I'm excited

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Keith and David,

I don't want to go too far off topic but as this thread has been identifying vehicles I thought I might add a few observations.

Zooming in on your photo of the F15-A with the bent gallows gives an ARN of 132159 which shows as a Battery Staff vehicle in the AWM records.

Was nice to see the 2 gallon foam extinguisher on the drivers side bracket as Mike Cecil pointed out to me a few weeks back. Also the 5 ton bridge disk and wheel valance storage lockers. Thanks again Mike. Still don't know what the bracket above the extinguisher is for. Radio mast maybe?

The question I have is from the ARN book extract posted here.

ARN 132156 list it as type "H" and ARN 132158 list it as type "GA" Both are Battery staff if the ditto marks from a previous entry are correct. So what are "H" and "GA" type vehicles?

My parts truck seems to be originally a Battery Staff vehicle based on the transmission s/n which gives it an ARN of 55166. The foam extinguisher holder and sunshine roof adds to the likelihood. Pity the sunshine roof is so rotted away however that the only thing salvageable are some of the fittings.

Cheers,