Cab 11/12s in old archives

[Keith Webb]

Somewhat in the spirit of the 'in the background' thread I thought it might be fun to start one looking for pictures of cab 11/12 CMPs found in public archives, giving caption where available and source thus:

Here are a couple to start:

Australian Armed Forces, Dutch New Guinea and Borneo, World War II [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1945]
7 photographs : gelatin silver ; 12.0 x 18.0 cm. approx. and smaller.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.103/1944
Image Number: an013293

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Australian armed forces in New Guinea [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1942-ca. 1945]
10 photographs : gelatin silver ; 22.0 x 17.0 cm. or smaller.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.103/1371
Image Number: an013259

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[Keith Webb]

Australian Army Service Corps [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1938-ca. 1942]
9 photographs : gelatin silver ; 23.0 x 32.0 cm. approx. or smaller.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H98.105/3634
Image Number: an008410

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[Keith Webb]

The title should have been 'F60L'

Title: Military truck on patrol in the jungles of New Guinea during World War II, ca. 1944
Location: Papua New Guinea
Date: ca. 1944
Creator: Unknown
Description: Trucks used by Australian Army were from the United States Military. (Description supplied with photograph)
Accession number: 99-5-6
Original format: copy print : b&w
Digital format: image/jpeg
Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Image number: 181555

[Keith Webb]

Transport trailers carrying troops within Australia [picture]
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1943]
6 photographs : gelatin silver ; each 11.0 x 16.0 cm. approx.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H99.201/2839
Image Number: an004426

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[Keith Webb]

itle
Truck
Description
A 'Blitz Buggy' driven by Sid Johnson (E28411)
Subject
World War, 1939-1945.
Subject
Australia. Australian Army.
Subject
military vehicles
Subject
trucks
Image number
PH0459/0138
Collection or series
Ashley David Magarey Collection.
Date or place
Stuart Highway
Date or place
194?.
Rights
Northern Territory Library.
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[Keith Webb]

Title
Truck
Description
A 'Blitz Buggy' after an accident due to slit headlights
Subject
World War, 1939-1945.
Subject
trucks
Subject
road accidents
Image number
PH0459/0143
Collection or series
Ashley David Magarey Collection.
Date or place
Stuart Highway
Date or place
194?.
Rights
Northern Territory Library.
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[Keith Webb]

One of a series of pics of this demobbed and modified F60L.

Title
Ford truck
Subject
Ford (trucks)
Subject
R.F. Pearson, motor trader (167 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
Subject
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Image number
Home and Away - 32836
Format
text/html
Format
image/jpeg
Managed by
IsFormatOf Item held by State Library of New South Wales
Collection or series
IsPartOf Hood Collection part I : Sydney streets, buildings, people, activities and events, c.1925-1955
Date or place
1953
Rights
Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales
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[Keith Webb]

Lorry drivers attending to final details before the train moves off. picture
Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1942]
photograph : gelatin silver ; 11.0 x 17.0 cm. approx.
Reproduction rights: State Library of Victoria.
Accession Number: H99.201/2895
Image Number: an004474

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[lynx42]

Great photos Keith.
Its interesting to look at the different tyres and the way the chevron patterns are put on.
My Dad had to drive Ford Blitz's from 3 BOD Seymour Vic to Terowie in South Aust.in 1942 for use on the North/South Road. He said the heat during his later stint with the 2/7 Independant Commando Squadron in New Guinea was better than the heat coming from the Ford V8 in outback Oz.
Regards Rick

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

The Top, first # 12 Cab Chevy appears to have been yet another Mid-East delivery that was then sold to the Australian Government.

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by David_Hayward

The Top, first # 12 Cab Chevy appears to have been yet another Mid-East delivery that was then sold to the Australian Government.

Yes, you're probably right. The ARN would tell us if we had the right book to look it up. Must check it next time I'm at the Australian War Memorial.

[Keith Webb]

ID Number: 023670
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: PORT TEWFIK, SUEZ. 1942-02-13. 2/5TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD AMBULANCE VEHICLES CLOSELY PACKED ON THE DECKS OF THE "CITY OF HANKOW".
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Ambulance services; Motor vehicles
Related unit: 2/5 Field Ambulance; Transport ships
Related place: North Africa: Egypt, Suez Canal Zone; North Africa: Egypt, Suez Canal Zone, Port Tewfik
Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

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[cliff]

ID Number: 025816
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA. 1942-03. A TRANSPORT PARK AT A CAMP OCCUPIED BY RECENTLY ARRIVED TROOPS OF THE A.I.F. FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. THESE VEHICLES WERE ON SERVICE IN THAT THEATRE OF WAR.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Motor vehicles
Related place: Adelaide; Middle East

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

nice to see the roof proped up already concidering it is really not all that old a truck.

ID Number: 094303
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: BOUGAINVILLE. 1945-07-21. A 3-TON VEHICLE OF 2/11 FIELD REGIMENT TOWING A JEEP ACROSS THE FLOODED OGORATA RIVER. OWING TO HEAVY RAINFALL THE RIVERS ARE NOW IMPASSABLE TO JEEP TRAFFIC.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Trucks; River crossing; Jeeps; Floods
Related unit: 2/11 Field Regiment
Related place: Bougainville; Ogorata River Area

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

looks like an 11 cab

ID Number: 005657
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: 1941-01-30. TOBRUK. THE CHURCH AT ROBRUCH. THE ONLY BUILDING NOT MARKED BY THE BRITISH BOMBARDMENT. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER).
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Churches; Wrecked buildings; Bombardment
Related unit: Royal Artillery

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[Keith Webb]

Yes, that's part of an interesting series of images the AWM holds. Wonder whether there are any old newsreels of the time.

Originally Posted by cliff

ID Number: 025816
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA. 1942-03. A TRANSPORT PARK AT A CAMP OCCUPIED BY RECENTLY ARRIVED TROOPS OF THE A.I.F. FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. THESE VEHICLES WERE ON SERVICE IN THAT THEATRE OF WAR.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Motor vehicles
Related place: Adelaide; Middle East

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[Keith Webb]

We've seen this one before, but it's a good one. Some time ago I sent the library info on the vehicles and they partly amended their caption.

Title: Chevrolet and Canadian built Desert Blitz trucks with their drivers, ca. 1948
Location: Queensland
Date: ca. 1948
Creator: Unknown
Description: Vehicles left to right:3 ton Chevrolet truck 6 cylinder, imported chassis, local body, other 2 vehicles, Ford V8 truck ex Army early WWII pattern, with Canadian chassis and cab, 3 ton capacity, 4X4 model F60L.(may be 1945/6 since mil trucks have writing on windscreen as if just purchased, no number plates yet)
Is part of: The Garage: a photographic album of Queensland motoring. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/garage
The Garage contains approximately 500 images of vehicles used in Queensland Australia, covering the period from 1900 . The images are linked to an index of the State Library of Queensland's extensive collection of automotive repair manuals.

Accession number: 81-8-1
Original format: copy print : b&w
Digital format: image/jpeg
Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Image number: 24628
Digital ID: picqld-citrix08--2005-04-05-11-22
Rights: This image is free of copyright restrictions. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/legals.htm

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Great pics! (Although some have been seen here before.)

And don´t forget to look at this thread.

H.

[cliff]

ID Number: 064674
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: CEYLON. 1942-06. TRUCKS AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF "A" BATTALION, "B" ECHELON, 6TH DIVISION.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Trucks
Related unit: Headquarters units; 6 Division
Related place: Ceylon

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

ID Number: 119184
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: THURSDAY ISLAND, TORRES STRAIT. 1945-10-29. ACTIVITIES AT TORRES STRAIT AREA COMMAND. Q85071 DRIVER B. NAMOK BEING ASSISTED BY Q85070 DRIVER J. KRIS BOTH OF THE TORRES STRAIT LIGHT INFANTRY BATTALION , IN SERVICING A TRUCK. BOTH MEN ARE FROM MOA ISLAND. (PHOTOGRAPHER LT N. B. STUCKEY)
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Trucks; Vehicle maintenance
Related unit: Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion
Related place: Torres Strait; Thursday Island

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

ID Number: 029291
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: TOWNSVILLE, AUSTRALIA. 1942-11. COLLECTING DETECTOR PLATES AT THE CONCLUSION OF A GAS SHELL SHOOT BY 5TH FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Artillery; Gas warfare
Related unit: 5 Field Regiment
Related place: Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

ID Number: 025822
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA. 1942-03. UNLOADING TRANSPORT VEHICLES BROUGHT BACK FROM THE MIDDLE EAST BY THE RETURNING A.I.F.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Motor vehicles
Related place: Adelaide; Middle East

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

ID Number: 071858
Maker: Fraser, A L
Date made: 30 March 1943
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1944-03-30. DRIVERS OF THE 151ST GENERAL TRANSPORT COMPANY PAINTING TRUCKS, AND COMPLETING THE 6,000 MILES MAINTENANCE CHECK ON THE VEHICLES. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE: V240439 DRIVER S. F. JARDINE (1); VX123107 DRIVER T. W. HARRIS (2); SX20450 CORPORAL A. C. TRISH (3); VX88901 CORPORAL J. P. ROWELL (4).
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Group portraits; Trucks; Vehicle maintenance
Related place: Papua New Guinea: New Guinea, Huon Peninsula, Lae

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[cliff]

ID Number: 022523
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: LIBYA. 1941-12. TRANSPORT MEMBERS OF NO. 3 SQUADRON, RAAF, MAKING REPAIRS TO A DAMAGED TRUCK.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Trucks; Vehicle crashes and wrecks; Vehicle maintenance
Related place: Libya

Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[Keith Webb]

Not everybody has a cab 12 used for their funeral.

Title
The coffin of Prime Minister John Curtin leaving Parliament House, Canberra, on a gun carriage, 6 July 1945 [picture]
Description
Title devised by cataloguer based on information on compactus card.; "2929"--In pencil on reverse. "N2043(O)"--In pencil on reverse.; Negative no. 2703s.; Condition: Fair, stained u.r.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3602209.
Subject
Curtin, John, 1885-1945 -- Death and burial -- Photographs.
Subject
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs.
Publisher
1945.
Image number
nla.pic-vn3602209
Format
1 photograph : b&w ; 11.6 x 25.1 cm.
Managed by
Item held by National Library of Australia
Date or place
1945

[Keith Webb]

He was doubly fortunate; in Perth he was dragged around by a very nice C15:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3601838-v[/IMG]

[IMG]Title
Funeral procession of John Curtin in Perth, July 1945 [picture]
Description
Title devised by cataloguer based on information on compactus card.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "Censored file copy"--Stamped on reverse. "Perth Neg. 3"--In pencil on reverse.; Neg. no. 4205/b.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3601838.
Subject
Curtin, John, 1885-1945 -- Death and burial -- Photographs.
Subject
Prime ministers -- Australia -- Photographs.
Subject
Federal politicians.
Publisher
1945.
Image number
nla.pic-vn3601838
Format
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 15.1 x 20.7 cm.
Managed by
Item held by National Library of Australia
Date or place
1945

[Keith Webb]

Title
[Australian troops in Dutch New Guinea and around one of the camps]
Creator
Smith, Norman, photographer.
Description
Shows Gnr. D. Fraser from Victoria and Sgt. M. Sandow from Victoria with Javanese woman; Pte. K. S. Bland, Cpl. J. Mulline, Cpl. G. Jacques and Pte. P. J. O'Shay with indigenous New Guinean baby; soldiers playing badminton; Pte. R. Holloway from Victoria, Pte. J. Conelly from Victoria and Spr. B. Horsley from N.S.W. with Malay fisherman mending net; S.Sgt. L. E. Walter, Sgt. J. Anderson and Sgt. B. Kirkpatrick from N.S.W. using camp shower; Driver M. Leahy from N.S.W. with young indigenous boy Moosa; bogged jeep on side of road; Pte. C. A. Turner and Cpl. C. C. Martin, both from Queensland with indigenous bearer; soldiers in the coconut groves; Sapper D. Symons from Adelaide having his hair cut; L.A.C.s C. W. Page and D. Murphy riding ponies.
Subject
Australia -- Armed Forces Military life -- Papua New Guinea
Subject
Australia. Army.
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New -- Guinea Indigenous peoples -- Papua -- New -- Guinea Indigenous peoples -- Indonesia
Image number
H98.103/2034
Format
12 photographs : gelatin silver ; each 13.0 x 17.0 cm. approx.
Managed by
Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series
IspartOf Argus newspaper collection of war photographs. World War II.
Date or place
[ca. 1944]

[Keith Webb]

Title
[Bulldozers clearing and trucks driving on new Darwin Road]
Subject
Australia. Army Transportation.
Subject
Earthmoving machinery. -- Roads -- Design -- and -- construction
Image number
H99.201/2009A
Format
2 photograph : gelatin silver ; 9.0 x 13.0 cm. or smaller.
Managed by
Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series
IspartOf Argus newspaper collection of war photographs. World War II.
Date or place
[ca. 1942]

[Keith Webb]

This batch courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.

ID Number: 028675
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: GERALDTON, AUSTRALIA. 1942-10. AN ANTI-TANK GUN MOUNTED ON PORTEE, READY FOR "ACTION" IN THE FIELD EXERCISES CARRIED OUT BY 2ND AND 4TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISIONS.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Anti tank; Artillery; Exercises and manoeuvres
Related unit: 2 Division; 4 Division
Related place: Australia: Geraldton

ID Number: 024167
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: TRIPOLI, SYRIA. 1942-05-01. A PORTEE WITH AN ANTI-TANK GUN GOING UP TO THE FRONT DURING THE 26TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE MANOEUVRES.
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: Anti tank; Artillery; Exercises and manoeuvres
Related unit: 26 Brigade
Related place: Syria: Lebanon, Beirut Tripoli Area, Tripoli

ID Number: P01393.002
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: SYRIA. MAY 1945. A 2 POUNDER ANTI-TANK GUN 9 BATTERY, 2/3RD AUSTRALIAN ANTI-TANK REGIMENT WITH CREW. ORIGINAL PRINT INSCRIBED "OUR 2 PDR ON PORTEE ON MANOEUVRES IN SYRIA MAY 1942. ROY, FRANK, LES DON AND SELF". (DONOR: C. TAPPERE)
Copyright: Status to be assessed
Related subject: 2 Pounder anti tank guns; Exercises and manoeuvres
Related unit: 2/3 Tank Attack Regiment
Related place: Syria
Related conflict: Second World War, 1939-1945

[Keith Webb]

Title
[Scenes at convoy route staging camps]
Description
Shows soldiers having a wayside snack, from l. to r.: Cpl. A. Brotherton, Pte. F. Patrech, Pte. R. Webb, Pte. A. Charnock, Pte. F. Broadfield (all N.S.W.); soldiers cooking steak for supper over an open fire, from l. to r.: Driver, R. K. Squires, L/Cpl. W. McKennan, L/Cpl. N. E. Jones and Cpl. W. McAllister.
Subject
Australia. Army Military life.
Subject
Military trucks -- Cargo -- Australia Military camps -- Australia
Image number
H99.201/2860
Format
2 photographs : gelatin silver ; each 11.0 x 16.0 cm. approx.
Managed by
Item held by State Library of Victoria
Collection or series
IspartOf Argus newspaper collection of war photographs. World War II.
Date or place
[ca. 1943]