Aussie WW2 staff cars

[Mike K]

Laurie Wright was a young teenager in Sydney during the war and he observed the colours of the military vehicles at the time.

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'Although a bit of an aside from camouflage, but was shown about the same respect, the colour of General Officers’ cars is worth a quick look. According to the “good book”, cars of General Officers were to be coloured black and carry a Commonwealth number plate front and rear. You won’t find many that complied with this instruction, in colour or number plate. Most in fact clung to their AIF plates, and cars were anything from white to grey to camouflaged to two-tone.'


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'It is obvious that despite the best intentions of those who brought out vehicle camouflage diagrams even as late as 1944, that for most people, camouflage painting was as dead as the Dodo. If it was on it stayed on until the vehicle was repainted. If it wasn’t camouflaged nobody cared. It was common by that time in Sydney to see cars and 12-cwt utilities with a chrome grille, front bumper and trim. It can be seen in photographs, even on some vehicles in New Guinea.'