Unusual looking truck

[Mike K]

You can contact the Ford Discovery centre in Geelong. They have the local production records but I doubt if any LHD COE trucks were assembled locally around 1948 . LHD drive vehicles were banned in Victoria in 1948 because of a spate of accidents involving LHD ex army vehicles, many of which fell into civilian hands from 1945 onwards.

Locally assembled LHD drive vehicles are extremely rare here , and apart from myriad fully imported 1950's and 60's yank tanks from Nth America which became a popular business venture from the 1980's and keeps on going til today , the only LHD locally assembled vehicles you would see are street sweepers or cranes .

Mike