F60L ARN 46660 Cab 12

[Ken Smith]

Good day Lionel,
I do live near Dalby and I am not very far from Mick the owner of the tilt tray, so I get a bit of a discount anyway. Depending when you got your truck it would have been Mick or the previous owner Jason that delivered it, both top blokes.

It must have been Mick, and you must have had an effect on him, as he has started collecting 1 ton Chevs, with the intention of restoring one back to civilian colours.

Cheers Ken

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Good day Lionel,
I do live near Dalby and I am not very far from Mick the owner of the tilt tray, so I get a bit of a discount anyway. Depending when you got your truck it would have been Mick or the previous owner Jason that delivered it, both top blokes.

It must have been Mick, and you must have had an effect on him, as he has started collecting 1 ton Chevs, with the intention of restoring one back to civilian colours.

Cheers Ken

G'day Ken,

I bought my Chev from Russell Price's located on Toowoomba Road. If Jason is a Price then it would have been Mick who delivered my truck. If it was Jason, then he had only just sold the truck when I was arranging to have my Chevy delivered here. If that is how things ran - as it has been years since; then maybe, it was Mick who delivered my Chevy!

Yes, the Chevys can be contagious. One thing about going to Price's place is that you need to bring a packed lunch and water because it can take a day to just tour the place!

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Ken Smith]

Good day,
I just have just discovered my F60L ARN 58171 has a Machinery "D" loading body, does anyone know what that had in it?
I had a look on the AWM site but no interior pictures, except of a Machinery "E" trailer.

The left hand page of the ARN list also has a notation,
Check per G.R.O. 0.831/43 22/3/44. Any idea on that one?

Cheers Ken

[Mike Cecil]

The vehicle register entry was checked for accuracy against the actual vehicle ion accordance with the requirements of General Routine Order 0.831/43 on 22 March 1944.

Mike

[Ken Smith]

Thanks for your invaluable input Mike. Very interesting that the army was double checking their assets, but also nice from a historic point.

Ken

[Ken Smith]

Ok a bit more research. I searched loading instead of machinery and workshop on the AWM site, and I came up with a "DI" loading instrument repair vehicle.
I think it is probably "D1" not "DI" as there is a "Z1" loading vehicle mentioned elsewhere.
When I searched this forum I found that some Lindsay C60X machinery body types are C1, D1 etc. I know that it is a pretty big leap going from Lindsay body designations to Australian made machinery bodies, but surely there was a common designation for Empire armies.
I might add that the designation in the AWM book for my truck is "D" alone.
I just read on a bit further in the ARNs and I see that 58206 is a "D1" so maybe there are variations.

Ken

[Ken Smith]

I have had a bit of time to spend on the computer the last couple of weeks and decided to clarify some things with my trucks, ARN 46660 was supposed to have been purchased direct from the Cecil Plains aerodrome in 1946.

This has now been proved wrong as the AWM books show that it was bought by Ford from a sub park. I don't want to offend the fellow I bought it from by calling him a liar as he was very sincere in his efforts to help me have the history of the truck, and I don't doubt that they were the first owners, so I thought I might clarify some grey areas.

Did the army auction stuff to the public from local areas? It would make sense to have the people that bought the stuff carry it away rather than have to pack it up transport it to a depot and then auction it.

Would/could these local areas have been called sub parks for the purpose of a name?

Did the manufacturers send buyers along to lines of trucks and bid on them, or did they send buyers along to lines of trucks check them over then offer a price to the government for a batch, or did the government say, we have say 300 trucks in Brisbane do you want them? or you will purchase them.

My 3 cab 12 F60Ls were all purchased by Ford Motor Co from sub parks.

What I am getting at is could the previous owner have bought the truck from a Ford rep after a auction? I just remembered he told me all the wooden rails in his undercover pig pens, which he showed me came from the Cecil Plains auction.

Last question what would an army truck have been doing on a RAAF base anyway?

Cheers Ken