[Mike Cecil]

The decision to replace jeep with Land Rover came in September 1958 after the trials. Anything done before that, and for a short time after that, with the jeep was just "business as usual". The rebuild plate indicates it was done by Base Workshop Broadmeadows, so on the base just north of Melbourne. I think it was or became 3 Base Workshop - 4 Base was at Bandiana and 2 Base at Moorebank.

Although Army intended to have a rapid-roll out of the replacement, whatever the trials indicated it would be, after the decision to procure L/R was made in Sept 1958, there was always the time taken to negotiate the supply contract, the time taken to progressively supply around 1700 vehicles and the time taken to train personnel on the new equipment (logistics, driver training, tech training, etc), so it was always going to be a couple of years at least before the LR fully replaced the jeep. First line ARA units (and training establishments) were the first to receive them, then they trickled down to the rest of the ARA, then the CMF.

Mike