Australian Army Vehicle Registers AWM126

[Lynn Eades]

Mike C. Would you care to put up a few explanations of the abbreviations?
cvt, san, etc. I have the various motor cycles sorted.

One was in Book 6,no.14000 Ntn (Norton?)mcycle, comb (sidecar?) 53251,4 1/2h.p.1940,400x18 (rear tyre?) with pwr/dve (power drive?) What is that?

Also if you have time to waste, can you explain the entry in Vol.6. 16720. There are convoluted notes on the l/h side about a couple of Bren carriers T3374 and T3375.
Do the books relate to certain areas? Any clues? My reading of hand writing seems to have deteriorated.

I was excited to see the various Vickers MkVIa light tanks. (bk5,266- 279)

Entry no. 281 is for the British M.G. carrier No2 MkI T2831

No.633 being a R.Royce is interesting I guess impressed.

What were the LP3's, Stingray, Starfish, and snake?


Thank you.

[Mike Kelly]

CVT = Chevrolet

sans = ?????

boarded = ??????

Ford and GMH , seems that a high percentage of the trucks went back to them for resale ?

The Chrysler stuff ( Dodge , Fargo ) some of them went to Harden & Johnston, a Chrysler Australia distributor in Sydney. Lanes Motors ( the Morris dealers ) gets a mention as well , I know they got the Morris Commercials CS8 and PU's but no mention of that in these books.

The Chev Indian pattern Ambulances went back to GMH . Did GMH remove the bodies and resell them with cargo trays ? Maybe that's why none exist today? Spotted the Chev seater utilities on the 115" wb ( not the CMP based type ) .

[Keith Webb]

What were the LP3's, Stingray, Starfish, and snake?

They were pre-war Australian Local Pattern armoured cars, Ford based with Marmon-Herrington 4X4 kits., also other names such as Bandicoot, Boomerang and others. There are some survivors.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

What were the LP3's, Stingray, Starfish, and snake?


Thank you.

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[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

One was in Book 6,no.14000 Ntn (Norton?)mcycle, comb (sidecar?) 53251,4 1/2h.p.1940,400x18 (rear tyre?) with pwr/dve (power drive?) What is that?

.

Lynn,
Norton Big4 633 cc combination with sidecar wheel drive

[Lynn Eades]

Thanks guys.
Boarded; I believe it to be when there is a "board of survey" and the item is written off by the boarding officer.
B.E.R= Beyond Economic Repair.

As an example. (creative accounting it's called)

Me watching a Storeman Corporal and a Captain.

The Corporal had laid out these broken tools in a row along the floor of his store. Amongst those tools were 3 chalk drawings of 8 inch Cresents. (the storeman was short of these 3 items)
The Captain moved along the line.
"What are those Corporal?"
"They are 8 inch Cresents Captain"
"What's wrong with them Corporal?"
The Corporal stepped forward with chalk in hand scratched a quick line through them, and replied
"They're broken Sir!

The Corporal had his 3 Cresents written off in the "Board of Survey" and his inventory again balanced

True story. The Corporal later became the only foreigner to ever serve in the Queens Guards (as a Beefeeter) There you go, I've pretty much named him.

[Richard Farrant]

Found a few more interesting entries;
280 Dragon Mk3 Field Artillery (Vickers)
282-287 Tilling Stevens petrol electric searchlight lorries
641 Laffley sweeper
642 Schneider
6900 M6 Cruiser tank with V12 Liberty engine (odd one here as M6 had a radial and think not classed as a Cruiser)

Worked out a few more abbreviations of makes;
FED Federal
VXL Vauxhall
REN Royal Enfield
TPH Triumph motorcycles

[Mike Kelly]

Found some Morris Commercials 13810 - 13829 ..20 in all.

Described as " Refugee " LAT Portees . I think these are the 2 Pounder Portees , a few have turned up . A Browne had two of these. Hughes in Coburg had sold a few ( purchased from Lanes Motors I would think ) . Hughes had a NOS engine and some spares too. The A Browne Portees were last seen heading Nth. to Bruce Wiltshire. One chassis nr. in the reg. book: C8 AT 1928 6465


And I think a Morris 6 wheeler CDSW ! 13809 is a recovery 6x4. Wonder where it ended up ? Amazing .

13808 is a Albion ?

[Mike Kelly]

Interesting : 42789 was a 'pilot model' Ford 6 seater utility 1942 .

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Interesting : 42789 was a 'pilot model' Ford 6 seater utility 1942 .

That is very interesting indeed, well spotted Mike! You'd think the Chevrolet version would be somewhere in there too... unusual engine number, 2D prefix which would be a 1941 motor... and we're still in cab 12 territory as far as the Aust deliveries go - and 9.00-16 tyres. I wonder whether it was a cab 12 based pilot? I don't think any Cab 13s appear until later on in the ARN series.