3 Aust A/T Regt Vehicle numbers

[Shane Lovell]

Hi guys

Well I am certainly surprised by the level of response to my original post. As some of the rersponses discuss allocations etc of vehicles to the AIF I thought it appropriate to describe what sources I have found.

2 Advanced Ordnance Workshop (based at Barbara Palestine / Syria ?) - the war diary of this unit has proved absolutely fantastic. It contains the monthy job sheets. These contain details of each vehicle that passed through the workshop, date of arrival, date of completion, WD No, type of vehicle, owner unit and the work undertaken. 1941 is complete and I am about to commence on 1942. There are literally thousands of entries. I will post the portee, universal carrier and gun tractor details that I have collated.

I hope to examine 1 Advanced Ordnance Workshop soon. I am currently assuming that they were at Tobruk and if they contain the work sheets it will be a gold mine.

1, 2, 3, & 4 Army Field Workshops - these also contain a considerable amount of information an include from memory a number of the monthly job sheets. They also frequently contain details from their recovery sections detailing the vehicles they recovered.

There is also all the unit LADs which are a bit hit and miss.

The truth is out there. All that is needed is some poor foolhardy individual who is prepared to transcribe it!

cheers

Shane