Mystery body

[gjamo]

I was wondering around the Adelaide hills in South Australia and came across this body,But is it military?

[4bee]

Balhannah I think. I have wondered that for many years that it has been sat there.

As it is adjacent to the Melbourne to Adelaide Main Line I have wondered if it had been used for railway gangers accom.

But where did it come from originally? Sorry, can't help.

[Pedr]

It's a British built Radio Body for a QL Bedford or similar. Has been there for a long time. Not far from Woodside Barracks. Lots of guys after it.

Fitted up would look something like this.

Pedr

Photo from Keith,,, www.oldcmp.net

[Tony Smith]

Except for the single rear door, this Wireless Lorry looks somewhat similar:

[Tony Smith]

Which was ID'd in this thread as possibly being a Leyland Terrier.

[Pedr]

This one is actually a repro. as the guy wouldn't part with it for Tony.

Pedr

Photo from ME

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by Pedr
"as the guy wouldn't part with it for Tony."

Pedr

I reckon that wouldn't be a fair swap, either.


(PS Pedr, what a sorry excuse for scenery in SA. Don't you guys have any vegetation?!?!?)

[Pedr]

Nah mate....no water here

First photo is in Corowa...land of 24hr sprinklers

Second one is in Adelaide after all the rest of the Murray water is used in rural NSW to water f$#@king rice and cotton and evaporated in thousands of kilometres of open flood irrigation channels in Western Victoria.




Not really it's in Arkaroola, Outback South Australia 2002.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Pedr
Not really it's in Arkaroola, Outback South Australia 2002.

Pedr,

The Studebaker, it looks like Rick Shearman's one?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by gjamo
I was wondering around the Adelaide hills in South Australia and came across this body,But is it military?

This body is post war, British. I reckon it is a MT Repair body ( or other role such as Signals ), but definitely off a Bedford RL.

[Richard Farrant]

Here is a photo from an official guide, on a Bedford RL around 1962

[4bee]

Complete with the front o/head locker/tank wottsit.

A mystery no longer.

Thanks.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

What are you doing wandering around in my territory without coming and saying G'day?
Bob

[Pedr]

G'day Richard

Yeah it's Rick's Stude.

I personally don't know of any other super-high hood bowed Stude's or Jimmy's.

And the QL is Tony Luke's. They are usually seen as a pair or the QL is seen with Rick's MJ. The Radio ( Sigs ) body looks far better on the QL, than on an UGLY-AS-SIN RL.

Pedr

Photo...camped outside John Belfield's Melbourne Tank Museum on the way home from Corowa 2006...Before the big sale. Taken by me.

[Stuart Kirkham]

This may help you identify the van body gjamo.

Auatralian Army International Acco 4x4 - Vietnam

[gjamo]

Actually I was following the instructions of a chinese woman in my NavMan GPS navigator. I dont know why but she kept yelling "perform a U turn you sirry iriot"