Ford GPA

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Deniliquin in NSW is where a bunch of surplus GPAs were bought and many were chopped and sold to farmers . This newspaper report indicates they held a rally at Deniliquin , beating Corowa by many years. And a GPA in flood rescue work Brisbane post war.

Hello Mike, interesting newspaper clippings.

Do you know how many GPAs were supplied to the Australian DoD?

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Hello Mike, interesting newspaper clippings.

Do you know how many GPAs were supplied to the Australian DoD?

Hanno

Not sure myself, the figure is pretty well published .Us attendees at the first or second Corowa were given a little booklet that outlined the GPA history in Australia, still have my copy.

I do recall speaking to an old chap on the phone , he was at Deniliquin and he had a WOt2 I was interested in buying. Anyway, he told me about his adventures driving GPA's from Bandiana to Deniliquin just after the war, he said a business had purchased a large bulk lot of GPA's and he drove many of them . Most of these Deniliquin GPAs had the bow chopped off and were sold to farmers as farm hacks

[ozm29c]

The GPA I restored many years ago was from Deniliquin. It was employed as a mobile post hole digging machine.

[Mike K]

GPA fatality at Bairnsdale Vic.

[Mike Cecil]

Hanno,

There are 161 in the Aust Army vehicle registers. One of these was transferred to the RAAF.

The number disposed of/left in Australia by USAFIA, if any, has not been established.

Mike

[Mike K]

Adelaide GPA and in Tasmania 1944

[Mike K]

A few of the many newspaper articles:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/a...m=Ben%20Carlin