Dutch buy ex-Australian vehicles

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

or in protest of the vehicles supporting the Colonial Dutch against the Independence movement of the Indonesians?

Indeed the international politic climate was anti-colonial, due to which it became increasingly difficult for the Dutch government to source military equipment from other nations and defence industries. Hence buying up dump equipment and vehicles in the Netherlands and Australia as we now know.

Of course a truck is a truck, so these were sourced from civilian sources and used as-is, shiny paint, chrome trim and all. A good example is this Dodge stake bed truck pictured in 1948:

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