Driving Range of Camp Borden

[Keith Webb]

Thank goodness CMP gearboxes are strong!
I didn't realise you actually drove one in service - will have to get these stories on camera.

Originally Posted by lynx42

Keith, Nothing had changed by 1965 when I reported to my first posting. HQ.3rd Div Transport Platoon, Melbourne. I walked in and was handed my full Army licence. I had only ever drive around a farm paddock and I was told to drive a Chev C60L out to Broadmeadows to return to their fleet out there. This was one of the few Blitz's still in service I believe. I got there without mishap but the gears were pretty polished by the time I arrived. I never had to undergo a driving test at ever.
Rick

[Jon Skagfeld]

I know Blackdown Park, Camp Borden, very well having spent several summers there. One summer was for a D&M course and we used the area extensively for training.

There was a snake's tangle of roads in one area near the Lisle Road (west part of Camp) where it was quite easy to get disoriented...as in temporarily lost!

There was also a deep ravine-like depression down by the Pine River known as the "bullpen". It featured a sand track up which one was required to successfully get to the top. I was about 150x in length at about a 30 degree angle. Great fun!

The posted pictures look like it may have happened at the top of the sandy track.

Good Grief! I could babble on about my memories of that place.