Bicycle, Men’s, Aust
Just to throw my 2 cents worth.
When I joined the Australian army in the early 1980s we had a huge number of yellow coloured ‘ Bicycle, Men’s, Aust’ on issue to transport and signals units etc for easy transport around garrison areas.
From memory they were all identical.
I saw a huge number of brand new unissued bicycles in storage in supply Battalions. When I discharged in the mid 1990s they were still on issue.
The story as I was lead to believe was that the the Australian Forces had captured no less than 8,000 brand new military bicycles from the Japanese somewhere in the pacific (I can’t remember where I was told) and still had thousands in storage.
Might the frame be one of these ?
Cheers
Phill
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