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Mike Kelly 29-12-22 11:40

SLQ photo archive
 
5 Attachment(s)
State Library of QLD pics: the pics are actually in the US Library of Congress web site

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...0/1a55003v.jpg

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 11:42

Slq
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...0/1a34945v.jpg

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 11:45

more SLQ
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE13627

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE145290

1941 Pontiac sedan: Right Hand Drive and GM-H assembled

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1383409

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1383418

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1383421

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1383412

Ed Storey 29-12-22 11:46

Colour Images
 
I like original colour imagery as it shows a different side to what is generally considered to be a bw war. Thanks for posting.

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 12:47

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1195021
 
1 Attachment(s)
1941 Chevy masonite ute - bodywork by GM-H

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1195021

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1195003

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1195012

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 12:57

https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a35224/
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a35224/

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1107312

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE299094

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1609845

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1378333

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 13:24

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643904
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643904

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643781

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643451

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643457

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643433

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 13:37

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE5617
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE5617

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643730

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643424

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE3004760

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE267906

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 13:55

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2343413
 
5 Attachment(s)
https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2343413

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2642884

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE2643430

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1142329

Mike Kelly 29-12-22 14:06

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE335870
 
4 Attachment(s)
https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE335870

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE324791

https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE1427672

maple_leaf_eh 30-12-22 00:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly (Post 290273)

Any guesses on the cargo? Coconuts? The citation on the link doesn't say.

Mike Kelly 30-12-22 22:39

Reply
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh (Post 290280)
Any guesses on the cargo? Coconuts? The citation on the link doesn't say.

Don't think it is coconuts. Can anyone make a positive identification ?

Mike Kelly 05-01-23 10:58

https://library-brisbane.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/BrisbaneImages/search/det
 
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https://library-brisbane.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/BrisbaneImages/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:24331/one

https://library-brisbane.ent.sirsidy.../asset/10969/0

Mike Kelly 23-07-23 12:06

Some more......
 
IMAGE
Transport for 1st Cavalry Brigade Signals Troop, Beaudesert Showgrounds, 1940

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645224

CJ3B jeep of the RAAF. more info https://cj3b.info/World/AustraliaRAAF.html
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL3326853

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Japanese Zero plane on the tarmac at Bougainville, 1944-1945
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL3005724


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1053761

GMC 4X4 COE Compressor truck. Used to be one of these at Eildon , the truck engine was U/S and they had a A frame towing it around to jobs.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1053791

Is this a BSA M20 ?
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1053809

Mike Kelly 24-07-23 04:56

Keeps on
 
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American G.I.s on the back of a Castlemaine Brewery truck in Charlotte Street, Brisbane, 1942

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1141910


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1428786


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1025641


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL10817

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Fire engine assembly plant, Brisbane, October 1942
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL13541

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Australian Women's Army Service members learning about vehicle maintenance, July 1942
Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd.
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL271951

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1942 Chevrolet Utility
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1207528

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Australian Army Educational Mobile Library in Eagle Street, Brisbane, ca. 1942
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL190749

Mike Kelly 24-07-23 05:17

Desert
 
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Military vehicles at the entrance to Cairo after crossing the desert, 1940-1942

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2964185

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2964089


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1st Cavalry Brigade truck in a 'blind alley' during military training
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645494


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644480

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Sappers (Royal Australian Engineers) with their truck
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645530

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Two signalmen perched on the back on a truck during training manoeuvres
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
31553, John Stanton Davis Mellick Archive
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2646178

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Filling up a motorbike with petrol from barrels on a truck
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644330

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1st Cavalry Brigade Signals Troop enjoying morning tea in their truck (0001-0018)
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645344

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Cable team with their truck and equipment
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644192

Mike Kelly 24-07-23 05:35

More scenes
 
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645536

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644654

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645368

IMAGE
1st Cavalry Brigade's temporary office
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645548


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Fred Stepheusen 'on the air'
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
31553, John Stanton Davis Mellick Archive
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645332


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1772670


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1196501

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Convoy of Australian Infantry in trucks on beach looking towards ocean, Bougainville 1944-1945 (0001-0046)
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL3005792

Mike Kelly 24-07-23 12:30

Timber
 
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Harry Bartlett's Ford 'Blitz' lorry with timber jinker, ca. 1950
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL292462


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1197077

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Jeep parked at Columboola Depot, Queensland, 1944
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2007
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1195454


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1195556

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Japanese prisoners of war unloading a truck at a dock, 1945
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644708


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644420

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Closure of the aeroplane factory at Maryborough, Queensland, at the end of World War II
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2010
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL396844

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Withdrawal of 31/51st Battalion from Merauke, Merauke, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 1943
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1028845


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1186738

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Vehicles lined up at Kelvin Grove
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
31553, John Stanton Davis Mellick Archive
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644156

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645392

Mike Kelly 24-07-23 13:32

More piccies
 
Same truck pictured earlier with the jerry-rigged canopy and the 101 wireless set.

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645236

Looks like they were a a militia unit using a mixture of their own cars and army vehicles
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645242

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644666


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645524

Vehicle check over before manoeuvres, Beaudesert Showgrounds, 1940
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645212

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645218

Wireless Van: The pre-war army vehicles are a dark green colour. Can't find a V338 in the AWM 126 book. 338 comes up as a 30cwt Chev.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644288

Nice pic of a early 'dark green' W.S. 101 . Production of these sets began in 1939 along with the W.S. 109
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645380


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645362


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645350


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645656

Early 101 set with the dark green case , they changed to the lighter shade 'khaki' colour.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2646022

Worth a mint today
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645230


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645398


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645356

The 'capacity hat' on top of the antenna is a method used to alter the radiation pattern = more efficient. A method still in use today.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2646010

Mike Kelly 25-07-23 10:20

base
 
IMAGE
Army base at Mt Isa during the Second World War, 1941
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1172766

Looks like a 1941 GMC
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1172778

Ford 11Y prang Brisbane
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1350636

The other car !
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1350642

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL207891


https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL172168

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL303367

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Jeep shunting empty coal hoppers, Brisbane
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2003
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL99907

BCC = Brisbane City Council. This is a wartime austerity bodied bus.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL89791

IMAGE
Ithaca Fire Station in Enoggera Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane, ca. 1942
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2004
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL10487

Mike Kelly 26-07-23 06:36

Ford
 
Ford ute in Egypt painted with the Caunter paint scheme.

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2964167

IMAGE
Australian Imperial Force vehicle next to a Vickers gun position, Egypt, 1940-1942
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2004

V1016: This vehicle was shipped to the Middle East on the vessel 'Arcadia' then returned to Australia and likely sold through a GM-H dealer.
Maybe this ute has survived to this day.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2964277

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Soldier kneeling beside army signal radios at Fort Lytton, Queensland, 1934
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2014

Radios are 'Ack sets' the manual is available: http://www.users.on.net/~tosty_2/ACK-SET-MANUAL/
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL311325


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Signalman Bill Dalton taking a message
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2018
WW1 D3 field telephone
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645512


Replacing a punctured tyre on the way to Tamborine
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2645662


Giving a vehicle a check over, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, 1943
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644978


Soldier walking towards a car at Albert Park, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, 1943
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2644972


Wiles Mobile Cooker at Rollingstone Army Camp, Queensland, 1943
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL1380517

Mike Kelly 01-08-23 06:49

IMAGE Aeroplane accident on Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane, 25 January 1946
 
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Aeroplane accident on Kingsford Smith Drive, Brisbane, 25 January 1946

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL103273

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Rebuilt Zero aeroplane at Eagle Farm, Queensland, 1943
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...s_pid=FL328119

IMAGE
Parade of military equipment, including a truck carrying a landing craft, Brisbane, July 1942
Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL14267

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Showgirls riding in the back of United States Army jeeps as part of a parade for a Rodeo, Brisbane, 1943
Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; 2005

https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv...ps_pid=FL22271

high res.
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/deliv..._pid=FL2646262


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