Te Rau Aroha I and II?
 

Looking at the photos here https://www.armymuseum.co.nz/te-rau-aroha/ I can only conclude there was a Te Rau Aroha I and II. The first one was built on an earlier Ford chassis (1940 or 1941 model?) with a body with an overhang over the cab. The second one is a 1942 model Ford. It seems the latter survived, to remember the feats of the former.

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Dave Hardway stated “the shrapnel damage that appears on the body with the early Cab/Chassis can be matched to the photo's with the later Cab/Chassis and to the Truck as it is today”.
So it seems the original body was converted and then transplanted onto the later chassis. A true Trigger’s Broom…

This photo just popped up on F/book. Is it the original or a copy. Says it was restored but school apprentices after being found in a scrap yard in NZ.
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Rick, you judge it. Compare the front guard / fender.
There are two fair haired girls in the photo. The taller one being my mother, the one on the left, her sister Joan.
The "truck" re visited the native schools on return.
Its a shame the sign writing didn't follow the original.

Can someone please turn the photos the right way up? Edit. Thank you Rob for turning them around in Post#157. The School Is the Okauia native school, on Douglas road out of Matamata. The number plate starts of with "Govt" This was fine for the first 9999 plates.

WW1 style. Vehicle donated by the Hon. Mrs Hoares.

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data...orton_16H1.jpg

Anyone know what van this is? bike is a Norton 16H, may be taken just postwar, Norwegian troops, looking at the lettering on the side of the van.

Cheers,

Lex

For Lynn, and everyone trying to see them, I have fixed his photos.

How about this colour photo taken from a slide of an Fordson NAAFI vehicle. The slides were taken by Brian Darrah in Cyprus in late 1950s. He was a member of the RNZAF Vampire squadron posted there.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ce4b954418.jpg31631AFE-0AB3-4EB2-9F9D-B9330FCC5246 by tankienz, on Flickr

His other colour slides showing mainly aircraft are at https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/3...oloured-slides It is just possible to make out the side of a refueller painted sand colour in one photo but i can't see enough to hazard a guess of the vehicle type.

Based in the little of the refueller seen in the photo, my first thought is the AEC 6x6 with cab looking like that fitted to the Matador. Model 0854 or 0856 chassis - I don't know enough about their numbering system to say...

Here's a postcard I just picked up off eBay. Barking Engineering was a shop near London that built mobile canteens for the British Salvation Army. From the looks of things, this canteen is probably circa 1940?

Matt

Chevrolet 1-1/2 ton 4x4 Panel Truck (G7105) converted to American Red Cross Clubmobile

Photos via André Margage

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Two more photos found on FB:

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If anyone knows where I might have gotten this notion I'd appreciate it. I'm approaching article writing time and would like to source my facts and fact my sources.

Thanks
Matt

Nice 1940 Chevrolet in Red Cross service.

"[Truck bearing red cross at Puckapunyal] [ca. 1940]"

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Source: https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalin...17072583607636

Tasmania
 

Tasmania WW2, Brighton army camp.

Source: Tasmanian history page Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/8459...8453429559902/

International(?) truck in 1940 “donated for service overseas”
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Photo “picked” by Beau Harper
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Fordson 7V NAAFI van in Caen, read more here:https://flic.kr/p/MCG3fc

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