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Old 23-12-21, 22:58
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Default AWM images - Jeep semi-trailer image

To those MLU people who avidly trawl through the AWM images on line, somewhere buried in there is an image of a jeep converted into a semi-trailer.

If someone chances upon it, or knows the call number, could they please post it here? I've used a bunch of keywords to search, but am yet to luck onto it.

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Old 24-12-21, 00:26
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Default Popular Science magazine

When I was growing up somehow the house acquired several orange crates of 1940s Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and the like magazines. I remember several rather breathless short articles bragging about the many ways to reuse wartime equipment. There were many naturally on all the civilian uses of Jeeps. I'm sure the thrill of freezing, frying, soaking, bouncing, flipping and other hardships suffered by the troops meant only a few of the imagined roles really panned out.
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Old 24-12-21, 01:45
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Maybe like this?
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Old 24-12-21, 01:59
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Thanks Lang, not seen that one before. Where did it come from, please?

The AWM image I remember was a 4x4 jeep with the rear of the body removed, and a single-axle, single wheel/side semi-trailer. The image was taken in a supply dump and was a local/unit-level conversion. Just cannot find it now!

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Old 24-12-21, 03:21
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Mike

That was a Pinterest Willys Jeep Trailer collection.

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Old 24-12-21, 04:36
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Thanks Lang (we need a 'like' button on MLU!)
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Old 24-12-21, 04:42
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Is this it ?

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C246105
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Old 24-12-21, 05:17
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Yes! Thank you, Mike, that's the one!


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Old 24-12-21, 20:57
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Default RAAF Semi-trailer

To update the image a little, this is 25 Air Stores Park, RAAF, vehicle (25 ASP, which can be seen on the side of the hood/bonnet and on the end of one of the stacked boxes). The unit moved to Labuan Island in late June 1945, operating there until disbanded on 19 November 1945.

The unit had previously been located on Noemfoor Island from June 1944 until moving to Morotai Island in April 1945. If, as the caption states, the jeep was acquired on Noemfoor Island, then it had been with the unit since prior to April 1945.

The construction of the trailer is interesting, as it appears to use the rear section of a jeep chassis, chopped off just in front of the forward spring mount of the rear springs. The pivot point on the towing tractor jeep seems to be above the pintle hook position, rather than over the rear axle.

The RAAF evidently found the conversion useful, as an official conversion was drafted in 1947/1948 with the 5th wheel pivot mounted above the line of the rear axle, the trailer having a drop-down gooseneck design. I suspect the RAAF were the only service to officially adopt a jeep single-axle semi-trailer conversion, but how many were actually converted is not known to me. It is certainly one of the more unusual jeeps.

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Old 24-12-21, 21:38
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For people who prefer to see the photo in the MLU view rather than the original site:
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Old 25-12-21, 01:27
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And how do you "Find an abandoned Jeep"?

In the latter stages of the War in the Pacific, vehicles that required uneconomic repairs, or even required transport by limited available shipping, were "Struck off" wherever they happened to be, while the unit moved on. Sometimes, a little bit of scrounging could put together a serviceable vehicle that was still useful.

Not Noemfoor, but have a look at http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=28368
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