[Col Tigwell]

You may be right, because when I brought it back it had no spare.

Examination also showed that it had no where to stow.

We had a WW2 ex army guy in our section, who straightened us out on the runflat tyres.

I am soory that I cannot advise more details.

I do know that it came out of "War Reserve" stock at Dubbo, and most of the vehicles there were very low milage. It was the o nly "weapon carrier" I ever saw in the Air Force.

We did have post war "Powerwagons" as early rescue vehicles, and they arrived if I recall early sixties. Were not very liked as they were so heavy, they would not accellerate well.

An interesting set of HGS trucks I saw at Butterworth, belong to our Mobile control and reporting units. It had a set of cabin and radar attenas, and masts etc, all fully airconditioned, and all this gear was designed to fit into the back of all these trucks, I think there were twenty in total.

These trucks looked like a Le Roy Mack, but I do not think they were. These trucks were purchased by the manufacturer of the radar sets, and they too came out of US Army stocks. LHD and Khaki. The paint job was so good, that the malaya's used to polish them to a high shine. Lovely looking truck, but we had to send someone to the USA to buy parts to back them up. I met the guy who did the job, and he got most of the parts from US disposals.

Never found out who made them, but they were a well liked product.

I am not sure if they brought the trucks back to Australia, when the unit closed, they were still at Butterworth in 1968.

Now I wonder any one seen a JEEP in a crate lately.

Regards

Col Tigwell