Hello Mike,
Slight amendment - my truck does not have the original horn. Here are three photographs of the Holden Build plates - the stamp for 1940 is very clear.
Mike, you were the one that recommended I should check to see if my truck was an Army one when I posted on another forum about my truck before I joined MLU. I was originally going to drop a nice big block Chevrolet into it and paint it red body with black mudguards. At the time I was in Bundaberg and the truck was still sitting in its yard at Dalby in Queensland - waiting to be transported here.
Here is the link to that message - God look at how long ago it was!!!
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...10&postcount=5
The other truck in the shed in one of my first batch of photographs is a 1934-35 REO Speed Wagon with a wide body - the equivalent of a sleeper cabin back then. It is a long term project and I got the Chevrolet because it would be a mid-term project.
Here is a youtube video of the American version of my truck and close to how I imagined my first thoughts of a rebuild. Except for this one still has the 216 motor and they did not paint the mudguards black. Accessed April 8th 2016 from,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Refn9dMpyBk The restorer does not mention its wheelbase but he does say that it is a One and a half Ton truck.
Kind Regards
Lionel