Medical vehicles

[Les Freathy]

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now
just a thought
cheers
Les

[Radek]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now
just a thought
cheers
Les

The scrap is the german scrap during ww2.
Radek

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now

Les,

Just to put things in a little perspective, the picture of that pile of British trucks was taken in the mid-1950s in Germany.

Would not mind having that pile in my backyard, though!

Cheers,
Hanno

[Radek]

nice!!!

[Les Freathy]

here are a few medical vehicles in WW2 from the Turnbull library depicting New Zealand units in Italy plus 1 from WW1
cheers
Les

[Radek]

ambulances in WH

[Les Freathy]

A Morris type Y light ambulance most likley RAF type 1701
cheers
Les

[Les Freathy]

For get that statement thats the result of trying to be clever and jump around photo numbers, it should have been this one the other photo is of two Morris CS11 30/F ambulances and a Morris CD30cwt Gs
Oh well
Les

[cliff]

from the AWM and an unknown source. Both taken during WW2. One in Hay New South Wales, Australia and the other in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

[Mike K]

Cliff

How many miles per gallon do those carts do ?

The Hay pic: would have been the POW internment camp there I would imagine.

Years ago the MV club here went on a trip to look over the Murchison WW2 POW camp in central Victoria ...it was interesting seeing the remains of it all hidden away in the bush ... Odd sights, like the elaborate stone memorial built by German POWs , looking strange sitting by itself in a lonely paddock . And the fancy entrance gates looking totally out of place in a isolated bush setting .We had a tour laid on by a local club member , the Cooler is still there , where they locked up the ' bad boys '. The Kormoran survivors were interned there too and and least one returned to live in the district after the war . Apart from the cooler , there was only one original building still intact ,complete with barbed wire surounds . We had contemporary pics to compare it all . Examples of the large old gum trees were still standing and we matched the scenes from the WW2 photos as if it was 1942 again, the trees matched up perfectly . Eerie feeling overall.

Mike

[Mike K]

This is the stone memorial we saw back in 1981 . This WW2 pic from AWM.

The cross had been removed and there was no evidence of the fence , it would still be there today . The land is privately owned and unfortunately vandals have got in over the years and destroyed or defaced other stonework built by the POW's. We looked at an Italian POW stone memorial that had recently been damaged by some moron . The dates had us confused until I pointed out that the FASCIST REGIME in Italy had their own calender beginning with year 1 , in the 1920's .There were intact concrete pillboxes still ready for use , the prisoners garden beds and roadways were still evident too. The location is a few miles of the main Hwy at Murchison.

028554
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: MURCHISON, AUSTRALIA. 1943-01. A MEMORIAL TO FALLEN COMRADES ERECTED BY GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR INTERNED IN THE CAMPS CONTROLLED BY NO. 13 PRISONER OF WAR GROUP.

[cliff]

AWM photo showing an RAAF flying Doctor Service with an Indian Bodied Ambulance in the back ground at Mareeba in North Queensland.

[cliff]

here is an oddball Chevrolet Indian Pattern Ambulance. Oddball in the fact that it is built on a Long Wheelbase Chassis rather then the SWB chassis normally used.

Photo was from Pictures Australia and part captioned..... A and D room 119 Australian General Hospital 1942

[Les Freathy]

What can anyone tell me about this ambulance in Polish service in the UK, it is built around a 30cwt Ford and the radiator looks to be the early civilian pattern 7V type
cheers
Les