ID this Trailer Chaps

[Local Chap]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

The only data plate I have found is a tiny one on the turntable which is the Research Enterprise Limited data plate and that doesn't have much info on it. I haven't found anywhere that a plate might have been on the trailer and no sign of a ARN, I have a feeling I read some where that the trailers were made by one of the Canadian mainstream trailer makers. I haven't found any numbers stamped straight on the frame but I will have another look when the ground dries out and I can get up the paddock.
Cheers Ken

The APF trailers were constructed by Brantford and the ZPI trailers by Truck Engineering Co, both Canadian roadfreight vehicle makers and bodybuilders.

The radar units were rego'd into the Aust Army in two batches of ARN's (which would tie in to the two Canadian contingents arriving into Sydney and Melbourne) in the ARN ranges of 123801-123960 (Vic) and 146001-146250 (NSW) and 147737-147843(NSW) in various blocks.

I have seen one of these trailers on a block not all that far from me a couple of years ago, and I recall at the time it had a sheet brass Data Plate on the right hand frame of the front axle dolly.