Thread: Identification Help

Sounds like a good introduction to things mechanical

If you find a military plate grab the details and look on here...
The Registry of Ex Military Land Rovers. Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.
It's a starting point if it is ex military.

The toolboxes down the back are standard. SIIa that had radio batteries had them in the tub just behind the transom.

Was the capstan winch on the vehicle what you got it?

Yes Lotz A Landies the winch has been on it as long as I have had the vehicle. Is that a piece of hardware that could have been fitted by the army? Or is it more likely to have been by an owner once the vehicle began civilian life.

And yes it was a good introduction to all things mechanical. Since then I took on an apprenticeship as a plant mechanic, topped the western institute of NSW for automotive and am now in the middle of a degree in mechanical engineering. Good onya Dad!


I will get some shots of the plates, the vehicle in general and the winch... It does seems to provoke some interest amongst Enthusiasts.

Hey all,

I got asked my Dad to duck into the shed and take a snap or two of the plates he could find on the dash and this is what he found...

I tried to track down the chassis number like you suggested alien and what i have found has left me a little confused.
112-1661091961-Series 26032Lubricating and servicing unit, power operated, Truck mounted, 3/4 ton GS.unk25304001A-750x1639NSW. Original chassis was 153101763not noted-

Am I looking at the same vehicle i dont know.

I have not been able to track down the number 153101715.

There must be another plate on the old girl somewhere.
Ill have a crawl over her on the weekend.
This is the Landy as she sits today.

Looking forward to finding out more.

Cheers

Hughie

OK interesting vehicle you have there, it is a 1961 Series 2 109", it was originally fitted as a Lubricating & Servicing workshop variant ARN 112-166.



The workshop bodywork was eventually swapped onto a SIIa chassis 25304001A (which came from ARN 108-632).

In 1973 A SIIa GS body fitted onto the SII chassis making ARN 174-434

All this swapping would have happened in 2 Base Workshop Moorebank NSW in 1973 (at the time they were in production re-building the vehicles that returned from Vietnam) Talk to "Cookey" he was a RAEME Mech at 2 Base Workshop about that time.

174-4341091969-Series 2A6028BTruck, Utility, 3/4 Ton, GS, Cargo With Winch25329817K153101763-750x16Original Chassis 25328105D replaced in 1973.09.07.80-


ah ha. well that does make it interesting. it's a bitsa.

I still have the cab roof canopy frame and the door tops.
And the winch was fitted by the army.

That photo you posted Lotz-A-Landies. would that photo be of the actual S2 that I have or the S2A that the body was fitted onto?

Originally Posted by hughie88

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That photo you posted Lotz-A-Landies. would that photo be of the actual S2 that I have or the S2A that the body was fitted onto?

Take a look at the number plate!

Thankyou.

Yes I saw that. I just wasn't sure if that would have been pre or post body removal. At the time i wrote that i was still getting my head around what you were telling me.
Regardless. Thats very very interesting.

I dont imagine there would be too many folks that have photos of their own chassis/vehicle in service.

I don't want to sell it now.