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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #60 on: October 01, 2013, 10:43:50 PM »

Perhaps the most useful Land Rover workshop for this unit, would have been the POL lubrication one, given all of the oil and greasing points on the vehicles and presumably guns,

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These two photos show a workshop with vehicles from 24 Construction Squadron, Borneo 1965. With all the earthmoving equipment and trucks, this workshop may have been the lube truck.


Apart from the guards, can anyone tell whether this workshop is a S2 or S2A?

It appears to have a chrome ring around the P/S blinker (rather than just the rubber body of the lamp holder in 2As) so would be a Series 2 if that is the case. Does it look like that to anyone else?

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Bridge Weight Disc is in between S2 & S2A height
TAC plates are on the brushguard
Appears to have the extended S2A chassis

sounds like a prototype..
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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #61 on: October 02, 2013, 08:05:57 AM »

Perhaps the most useful Land Rover workshop for this unit, would have been the POL lubrication one, given all of the oil and greasing points on the vehicles and presumably guns,

Cheers Charlie

G'day Charlie

These two photos show a workshop with vehicles from 24 Construction Squadron, Borneo 1965. With all the earthmoving equipment and trucks, this workshop may have been the lube truck.

 

 

Apart from the guards, can anyone tell whether this workshop is a S2 or S2A?

From a hazy memory from 1985, I seem to remember the POL workshops having pale coloured hose reel holders on the back; so one could select the hose reading OMD110 for example, and drag it off its reel to the vehicle concerned. However; I never used one, so my recollection may be completely erroneous - I was more involved with the vehicle repair workshop,

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #62 on: October 03, 2013, 03:02:11 PM »
Tommy, only too happy to help with any info that I can on Bofor's. :D You mentioned about the charger on the back of the L/70, our Mk 12's had JAP  brand 2 stroke chargers mounted on the back of the loaders platform, we also used a a 4 stroke off gun charger unit which had a higher capacity than the JAP to charge the batteries. ;D You can actually see the JAP charger and the tool box on the loaders platform in that first photo.


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I am interested in this thread as a friend has a Mk.12 Bofors without a charging set. I identified it as what appears to be the set used during WW2 in conjunction with the RAF's Trolley Accumulators for aircraft starting. They were mounted on top of the trolley. Now these engines were definitely side valve 4 strokes as I am familiar with the JAP 2A and 2S (only real difference is sump capacity). As the Mk12 was an electric conversion by the Bristol Aircraft Co. you can see how they came across this set and considered it a neat size to fit the platform. As you were there at the time and used them it is difficult to dispute your comment on them being a two stroke engine, but all info that has been gleaned to date on the sets for the Bofors is that they were JAP 2S four strokes, but would be interested to see any documents to say otherwise as we are looking for one of these sets.

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 Getting back to you regarding the JAP chargers on the 40mm Bofors, I have been in contact with two ex-members of 113 Battery, both former Battery Sargent Majors and they say the chargers were in fact 4 stroke. I apologize for my misleading information. They can't remember which version of the charger we had. I hope that helps.

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #63 on: October 03, 2013, 05:34:10 PM »


 Getting back to you regarding the JAP chargers on the 40mm Bofors, I have been in contact with two ex-members of 113 Battery, both former Battery Sargent Majors and they say the chargers were in fact 4 stroke. I apologize for my misleading information. They can't remember which version of the charger we had. I hope that helps.

Cheers Ausfree. :)

Hi Ausfree,
This does make the search more clearer, your mention of a 2 stroke only made me think there was yet another type of charger unit used as well. There is documented evidence of the British Army ones having the JAP and photos on here of Aussie guns I can clearly see they are the JAP units which were originally made for the RAF as I explained earlier. A very interesting thread from all aspects, I hope more photos are posted up.
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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #64 on: October 03, 2013, 06:51:04 PM »
More photos for Richard and others :)

Servicing the Bofors.



Australian gun emplacements at RAAF Base Butterworth.



 

 

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #65 on: October 03, 2013, 06:52:56 PM »
Australian gun emplacements along beach.

 

 
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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #66 on: October 04, 2013, 04:41:31 AM »
This photo is interesting in that it shows the brand new International Mk3s leading a convoy of venerable old WW2 Studebaker 6x6 belonging to 101 Field Battery. The soldiers driving the Inters must have felt quite chuffed about their state of the art trucks.





Earlier action in Malaysia (Malaysian Emergency 1950-60) saw these Studebakers used in numbers as they were the only suitable truck to tow artillery and transport troops in Australian service. The photo below shows HMAS Sydney loaded with these trucks and heading for Malaysia.

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« Reply #67 on: October 04, 2013, 05:09:50 AM »
More photos...

 

 

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« Reply #68 on: October 04, 2013, 05:12:57 AM »
 

 

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #69 on: October 04, 2013, 09:52:49 PM »
Please excuse my ignorance but why do they stencil on "Caution Air Brakes" on the tailgate??

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #70 on: October 04, 2013, 10:04:58 PM »
I assume because they're extremely twitchy. Almost no sensitive application, either on or off and if they fail....as an off road driving instructor once said to me....."we're off to the races".

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #71 on: October 04, 2013, 10:10:08 PM »
Tommy,

really enjoying this thread, thank you for your efforts

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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #72 on: October 05, 2013, 02:48:55 AM »
Please excuse my ignorance but why do they stencil on "Caution Air Brakes" on the tailgate??

At that time, when a lot of vehicles were still on vacuum assistance or no assistance at all, it was common to have these warnings as air braked vehicles could stop a lot quicker.
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Re: Australian Army Vehicles - Indonesian Confrontation 1963-66
« Reply #73 on: October 05, 2013, 05:36:03 PM »
Tommy,

really enjoying this thread, thank you for your efforts

regards
Scott
I must second that, for an old "bird shooter" like myself the whole Thread brings back memories, particularly the Bofors. I have fond memories ( OK not so fond) of digging Bofors in by hand, in the hard ground at Singleton army camp and also down at Tianjara, on the south coast of NSW. We also had live firing at Stockton and Wollongong.!!! :D :D I remember well, the Indonesian episode!!! :D
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« Reply #74 on: October 13, 2013, 04:11:12 PM »
Video of 110th Light Anti Aircraft Battery in Malaysia.

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/video/F03855.WMV