Andrew,
When I first saw this carrier, I also thought that the brackets were for a radio cover and that the other odd brackets were a few civvy mods. It was Wayne Henderson who pointed out to me that it was one of small number of converted carrier given the nomenclature ‘Carrier, M.G. (Aust) Mortar Carrying’.
Darrin Wright documented his outstanding restoration of other Aust Mortar carrier on this site and also did a lot of research into these vehicles at the AWM.
The covers themselves are very much simpler than the radio covers, being simple flat plate with no return around the lip.
I’m trying to work out where the bipod was stored?
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Phillip Thompson
"He who has the tiger by the tale, is often afraid to let go" - Confucius
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