AWM acquisition?

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

(1) vehicle with WO numbers arriving via Operation Stepsister from the Middle East retained their WO numbers no matter what type.

(2) vehicles arriving on refugee ships were alloted AMF numbers in the 50210 to 51000 block.

How then do we explain this one Mike:


P03113.002 Cairns, Qld. Probably 10th Australian Light Anti Aircraft Battery.jpg

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Seems straightforward to me, so I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree on the interpretation of MECH 314.

Again, what matters here is not how we ourselves might interpret MECH 314, but how staff applied it at the time. Until we know that, we can't know the meaning of 50201-51000 block records. I would point out however that if the purpose were to identify vehicles from refugee ships, the instruction would simply read:

A number of vehicles have arrived from overseas on refugee ships. These vehicles will be allotted numbers from a special block which has been reserved for the purpose, viz.: 50201 - 51000 for wheeled vehicles