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Old 02-11-04, 23:10
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Default Australian CGT mystery

Mike Cecil and I have been doing some research into the No9 (Aust) Field Artillery Tractors.
The question is, how many of the Chevrolet No9s were delivered to the Australian Army?
Intriguingly all of the surviving intact CGT9s have been built from NOS bodies on C15A chassis by restorers since the 1970s.
According to surviving records, there were only two delivered to the Army.
Euan's is body number 3 and number 12 and 39 have also been identified (all NOS bodies).
I've seen evidence of 5 others in cut down form, but none of these were on CGT chassis. One of those 5 is Rick Shearman's example:





Has anyone else in Australia any anecdotal or photographic evidence of these trucks?

The assumption at this stage is for some reason only two were delivered and the rest auctioned as scrap or salvage after the war. If so, what happened to the chassis for these vehicles? Did a shipment go missing in transit due to a torpedo?
There were 97 CGT No8 (Aust) built, and 98 and 84 Ford Nos 8 and 9 (Aust), respectively, and of these, the no9 Ford is by far the most numerous survivor.
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