Present from David H!

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

1943-01-14. PAPUA. GIROPI POINT. THIS IS WHAT CHEVROLET TRUCKS LOOK LIKE AFTER AUSTRALIAN MANNED TANKS HAD FINISHED WITH THEM DURING THE GIROPI POINT BATTLE. PTE. R. FRANCIS OF ADELAIDE HAS A REST ON THIS BATTERED JAP TRUCK

Ex-KNIL or ex-NEI civilian, altough could possibly have been assembled in Batavia but delivered to Papua New Guinea and then captured

[nuyt]

Nice one David!
Possibility is that IJA transferred it from Java to New Guinea during the war as they did with some KNIL material, including trucks..
See this link and the one inside:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/threa...eid=1111517471

Cheers,
NUyt

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I am conjecting that this is a British contract S/M 2028 # 12 Cab C-GT issued to the AIF in North Africa and then sold and subsequently shipped off for further service. Here is proof at last that this did happen:

Colombo, Ceylon. February 1942. A 1941 (early type) Chevrolet 8440/CGT 4x4 artillery gun tractor number H4522081 being unloaded from the troopship Mendoza. Soldiers and local people watch as the tractor is lifted out of the hold.

I assume that this was shipped with the 7th Australian Division from Port Tewfik, Suez, 6th February 1942 on the Mendoza.

[Tony Smith]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
Ex-KNIL or ex-NEI civilian, altough could possibly have been assembled in Batavia but delivered to Papua New Guinea and then captured

It has been ID'd in various books that these vehicles were from Malaya/Singapore, indeed there were also ex-Malaya AIF stores recaptured in the Buna-Gona-Sanananda battles.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Tony, that would mean that these were assembled by GM Java in Tanjong Priok, as they supplied:
Malay Federation, French Indo-China, Siam, the Netherlands East Indies as well as I think the Phillippines. The Straits Settlements/Singapore would have been included. Burma would I think have been supplied by GM India, Bombay as was Afghanistan.