Aust. One Ton trailer info. required

[Mike Cecil]

Richard,

If you identify a mistake in a caption, send the details to the Photo Film and sound section general email address (available on the website) for the duty curator to investigate and, if verified, correct. Your email must include the image number, existing caption or part, and your suggested correction.

Regards

Mike C

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Mike,
that e-mail address is there, but it took some finding (photographs@awm.gov.au).
Pics in question are shown on this post;
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ghlight=Humber

Correction advice has been sent.
For the record there are 800 000 photos in the collection, just not the ones I want!
Rich.

[Mike Cecil]

Richard,

Yes, that's always the way: never the images you need/want. When I was writing Mud and Dust it became apparent that there were some glaring deficiencies with the Vietnam coverage, so I went searching and found vets with several images to fill in the holes. Fortunately, they were willing to provide them for the AWMs use in the book, otherwise I'd have been a bit light on in such areas as semitrailers and tank transporters. Just shows that 800,000 images don't cover every aspect of the subject.

Mike C

[Darrin Wright]

Hi all,
I sent a link to this thread to a friend of mine posted to 16 AD for his input, this is his info (cut & paste):

Tail gate art "White rat with the red Eye shoulder launched missile behind" indicates that the trailer was used by the 111th Light Air Defence Bty, 16th Air Defence Regiment;

Christmas tree:- the colours correspond to the numbers (grey is 5, Green is 4, and yellow 3) and the numbers above are the same, this again points to 16 AD Regt, (Numbers are the Unit Designator code - UDC and indicate owner unit)

50 on tac plate again points to 16 AD Regt, kangaroo with crossed rifles and figure 1 indicates the owner higher Command :- First Division of Aust Army.

U/L CoG indicates unloaded centre of Gravity,

As for the QA the exact meaning is lost in history, but this kind of marking would be used to indicate the owner section within 111 Bty, in the same way call sign 21 indicates B Sqn , Alpha Troop. if I was to guess I would say that this was alpha troops, Quartermasters trailer.

Regards

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Darrin, thanks for doing that. I now have more history on this trailer than all my other vehicles combined, and then some.
Rich.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks, Darrin,

Never thought of the Redeye! That certainly dates the trailer: Redeye was in service for a relatively short time, and has been out of service for many years.

QA: the Artillery sub-unit marking info states the 'Q' prefix is for Quartermaster (ie supply) sub-units, with the following letter/numeral being the designator for this vehicle, so pretty much what you said.

Mike C

[Ganmain Tony]

Firstly, thanks to the Richard C-S for starting this thread and to all you guys who contributed...

Answers a lot of questions I would have asked about the trailer below...

A couple I will ask... if you look closely at the first photo you will notice a curved pattern of bolts which attach the guards to the trailer.

Now...my anecdotal information is that all the humbers we received out here came with a british built trailer. The one Richard Farrant described earlier in this thread. The FV 2401 A

To bring them in line with the ones we built out here, the Brit built ones had their round guards removed and replaced with the square ones.

AND were re-plated to indicate they were an Australian No 1 Mk 1 Trailer

Righto - over to the experts. Is the above info correct?

[Monkey Man]

I just got a hold of one of these today, had the rounded bolt pattern for the square guards, still had the connector box, canvas stowage box lid, bows, rear extra tow hitch? and what's left of origonal? lights. My wheel and hub combination looks different to what any of you guys have.
It does have 2 brackets underneath it, flat steel with round holes in them, not sure what they are for, the reversing bypass for the brake is dead set simple, slip the little steel U shaped strap over and brakes are disables, slip it off and ointo the bracket on the side to store it. The Manufacture date is 21/10/59 (scratch makes it look like 69') and it's S/Nr is below 1000 as it is 1297 according to the chassis plate, manufacturers data plate says 0297 but Transport will want the chassis data plate info I should think....
It'll be behind my M37 (3/4 ton rated Dodge), it does tow ok but would probarbly tow better when I get some good tyres on the truck, anyone got any good 900-16's about the place?? (yes, it's a long shot but if you don't ask you never know.....)

[easo]

Bridge class is also use for temporary bridging (not sure about MGB or bailey) to record daily tonnage for servicing, for example on the Leopard AVLB it had a total usable tonnage of 2000tons at up to 50ton at a time (from memory) so the AVLB crew could add up the bridge classes of the vehicles crossing. Once the usable tonnage was reached the bridge could be serviced, inspected or replaced. We would start at 2000 and count down.

Regards Easo