101 Ron
5th May 2017, 03:34 PM
Now that some of the Australian War memorial vehicle disposal books are on line I decided to look for my 1945 Studebaker 6x6 and find its original army rego number and then see if I could find any pictures of it in service on line.
The story is with my Studebaker is it came from a small museum in NSW which couldn't finish work on it to get it road worthy.
It has been in the family for more than 25 years and I think had 2000miles on it when we first got it.
The museum told us it was donated to them by a rural fire brigade.
This truck was super original still with its body and military fittings etc and I thought original motor.
The motor I reringed a few years ago as the rings had lost a bit of there tension though lack of use......the bore and everything thing was still standard and the rest of the truck is wear free, matching up with the low mileage.
The truck from memory is built 8/3 /1945
Chassis number is 92828
The rear body is steel
Engine number is JXDKV180807
A long search in the AWM books found the chassis number matching to army rego number 164-302.
so good so far.
The records show this truck must be currently on engine No 5
It hard to read but in order the engine numbers appear to be
559618
1546136
1551996
1363834
and now its current number....assumed fitted after army service.
180807
I can handle that.....but 5 engines in 2000miles ??????
The real problem is reading and under standing whats written on the left side of the book for this chassis number.
I will type it as accurately as I can
W/O BofS 18/72 2.BOD 4.8.72 .983/M402/59 List MGO/2BOD/VP/F4 12/9/72
can anyone help with the translation and meaning of the line above.
On right side of the page in very small hard to read writing near all the engine numbers is this
654/165/61 and 654/130/43 as written one number above the other.
Any ideas to the brains trust.
the Aust war memorial is fantastic in releasing these books on line and giving owner of old army truck a chance to trace the trucks military history.
Australian War Memorial (https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM126/)
Australian War Memorial (https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM2016.38.211)
Ron
The story is with my Studebaker is it came from a small museum in NSW which couldn't finish work on it to get it road worthy.
It has been in the family for more than 25 years and I think had 2000miles on it when we first got it.
The museum told us it was donated to them by a rural fire brigade.
This truck was super original still with its body and military fittings etc and I thought original motor.
The motor I reringed a few years ago as the rings had lost a bit of there tension though lack of use......the bore and everything thing was still standard and the rest of the truck is wear free, matching up with the low mileage.
The truck from memory is built 8/3 /1945
Chassis number is 92828
The rear body is steel
Engine number is JXDKV180807
A long search in the AWM books found the chassis number matching to army rego number 164-302.
so good so far.
The records show this truck must be currently on engine No 5
It hard to read but in order the engine numbers appear to be
559618
1546136
1551996
1363834
and now its current number....assumed fitted after army service.
180807
I can handle that.....but 5 engines in 2000miles ??????
The real problem is reading and under standing whats written on the left side of the book for this chassis number.
I will type it as accurately as I can
W/O BofS 18/72 2.BOD 4.8.72 .983/M402/59 List MGO/2BOD/VP/F4 12/9/72
can anyone help with the translation and meaning of the line above.
On right side of the page in very small hard to read writing near all the engine numbers is this
654/165/61 and 654/130/43 as written one number above the other.
Any ideas to the brains trust.
the Aust war memorial is fantastic in releasing these books on line and giving owner of old army truck a chance to trace the trucks military history.
Australian War Memorial (https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM126/)
Australian War Memorial (https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM2016.38.211)
Ron