ID Plates

[Keith Webb]

The large plate should have a WO number such as WO12 or WO52 and so on. It's not necessarily next to body.

[Andy Cusworth]

thanks Keith, it was at the top of the plate, it says WO 72

What body would that have been ?

[Keith Webb]

Unfortunately WO72 is one I don't have details for. I have one example listed:

WO72 Chassis 2844470016P Engine WR38601173

This tells us it is a C15A assembled in Perth but nothing more.

WO71 we know was GS Personnel on a C60L chassis and WO73 was the C15 version of the wireless signals.

Possibly it had a version of the No2A Aust steel box body adapted for a special use such as office. Hopefully the gaps in the knowledge will be filled in one day.

[Andy Cusworth]

may be getting older.... but not much smarter !
instead of running downstairs into the garage and scrambling with a torch.... use my noggin and removed the plate so can read it comfortably in the light.... pity it took me a year to have this simple brainwave

here goes

GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LIMITED

MODEL WO 72

SERIAL NO 38 444M 00 237

ENGINE RR3924689

Although the engine number is meaningless now as it has the Mexican engine in it .... for the time being anyway as she is going diesel

[Keith Webb]

OK the engine number will probably be PR not RR - most Chev CMPs here are PR, WR or TR.

The M in the chassis number is the code for Melbourne assembled.
8444 = C15A.

[Andy Cusworth]

it is P keith, bit of scale on it so have to catch the letters in the right light

when I bought it, it had a steel tank on the back and the bolted on chassis extention at the rear, the tank was steel and it had been owned by the fire brigade and sprayed red and then painted yellow once rural fire boys got hold of it, originally it was military green and for 70 year old paint its till stuck like tar to the body !
the tank was rusted out and I assumed it had the rear body replaced but maybe it had been a water tanker ot fuel bowser originally

[Keith Webb]

In Australian use the longer wheelbase versions were used for water or fuel - the 134" carried a 400 gallon water tank and the C60X tanker was used by the RAAF for refuelling aircraft.