Bush fire army trucks

[Ian Mastin]

G'day Mike,

Just in regards to your post regarding the WOT2! I think it could be a WOT2-h model the British Rego on my WOT2-h is Z-4643751 witch is very close to the one in the news paper.


Regards
Ian

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Ian Mastin

G'day Mike,

Just in regards to your post regarding the WOT2! I think it could be a WOT2-h model the British Rego on my WOT2-h is Z-4643751 witch is very close to the one in the news paper.


Regards
Ian

Ok Ian, thanks for that, its only four numbers difference , very close ! Those H models and some other British types have not been found in the ARN books, these examples may have not been refugee vehicles

[Mike K]

I can Remember this CS8 Morris being in the Belfield collection for many years . The door marking : MULWALA BFB (Bush Fire Brigade) It was sold at the big auction 2006 ..too steep for me . And another BFB Morris that the AWM had

[Mike K]

Monty's Midgets

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I can Remember this CS8 Morris being in the Belfield collection for many years . The door marking : MULWALA BFB (Bush Fire Brigade) It was sold at the big auction 2006 ..too steep for me . And another BFB Morris that the AWM had

Hi Mike,
The Morris on the left (Mulwala one) looks like a C4 as it has flat metal supports for the brushbar, and not perforated pressings like the CS8.
The C4 superceded the CS8 and had the 4 cyl engine.

regards, Richard

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

Hi Mike,
The Morris on the left (Mulwala one) looks like a C4 as it has flat metal supports for the brushbar, and not perforated pressings like the CS8.
The C4 superceded the CS8 and had the 4 cyl engine.

regards, Richard

Yes it looks like a C4 but its definitely a CS8 - I had a look over it . For some strange reason, many of the CS8's found over here have the later style cab with half doors and the full windscreen , don't know why this is the case.

Maybe these later cab examples were the last production run of CS8's , just before the changeover to the C4 .

Both these pics are of CS8's , the barn find one was taken at Ballarat airshow in 1985 . VMVC member John Carroll found this vehicle in a shed , hard to believe it was original and running, he did paint it though !It's now in the Moama museum run by Ian Ledwidge

[Mike K]

CMP conversion in 1955

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-314462135...e/n15/mode/1up

Another

https://northernbeaches.recollect.ne...des/view/15692

Indian pattern Ambulance ? Fire truck

https://hornsbyshire.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/4204

Bren carrier

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...hTerm=brigade#

Being clad in doped canvas or a similar material on a wooden frame, the Indian Pattern ambulance would not be the ideal bush fire brigade vehicle with red hot ashes falling from the sky. .

[Mike K]

Wandin Bush fire truck. WOT2E by the look of it. The rego nr. dates from: circa 1951

Wandin is in the Yarra Valley, East of Melbourne

Pic. sourced from F/B