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[Mike K]

Bob

there were a few variations with the Australian pattern 18" wheels . There was 18" a rim specifically made for use on trailers , you see them on the Aust. pattern trailers as with the compressor and many others .

GMH were very proud of their own manufactured 18" army rims for the Chev. MCP trucks and they boasted about it too . They must have had dies made to make them , with huge presses . I think the rim story is detailed in the 'GMH war record' , a book published by them just after the war , it details GMH's wide ranging efforts to make all sorts of gear . I have scanned the book onto CD .... but its got a copyright mark in it .

The book lists what was made at each plant ..... very interesting . Perth had its own wartime GMH plant too .

Mike