PR movie early 1960's

[Mike Cecil]

Great pieces of film. The AWM has quite a stack of these films, including trials and test films, aircraft recognition films, and so on. Seems they are slowly getting them onto digital format, which is excellent for all us 'mv nuts'.

Interesting that the opening frames of the 1950s film showed artwork of an M26 Pershing (never operated by Australia) , and the 1970s film that talked so much about the new 1 ton truck on trial was mostly showing 2 1/2 (4x4) and 5 ton (6x6) International trucks on trial - there was little of the actual 1 ton prototypes, just the short section in the sand pit connected to the strain meter.

Some really nice kit shown - including a White M3A1 AOP. Nice finds, Rick and Mike, thanks.

Mike

[Tony Wheeler]

Excellent find Rick, extremely rare to see Aust pattern gun tractors on film. Here's some wartime footage on parade: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F01705/

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[Keith Webb]

That's one of the classic ones - there's also the gymkhana but I don't have the reference for that one.
Pity they wasted so much film on Blamey and the crowd, they could have better used it with more arty tractor shots.
The Carrier pics are good, especially the low angle ones.

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

Excellent find Rick, extremely rare to see Aust pattern gun tractors on film. Here's some wartime footage on parade: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F01705/

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[Mike K]

I am wondering how they managed to get Blamey into that carrier, they probably rigged up a crane and lowered him in

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

That's one of the classic ones - there's also the gymkhana but I don't have the reference for that one.

That would be 9th Div gymkhana 20 Jan '45, also held at Herberton Racecourse. So far I've only found stills of that parade, including No.8 and No.9 gun tractors below. The only film I've found shows sports: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F07147/

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