AIF shipment of vehicles to Mid East '40?

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I have had no luck so far with finding any likely files in the National Archives in Kew, London, nor the ANA, online. That does mean that there are none!

I suspect that the vehicles issued to the forces in the Mid-East were officially lent, as with naval ships. The ANA files indicate that the AIF 'hired' vehicles that then had accidents, but I cannot get my brain around the thought of an official hiring of trucks in Egypt and Libya as these accidents that led to the files in the ANA were all in Australia.

I shall however keep looking, and am particularly pleased that I found a file in Kew relating to delivery of vehicles to Slough, namely the second Canadian Mechanization Depot, which was in the former Citroen Cars Limited factory. This may have some information of importance or nothing....watch this space.