The arn went with the new vehicle as per australian army arn books this blokee nos this he is trying to pass it of as 112 166 to get more money from the vehicle
Well if you look at the REMLR records that chassis is listed on two separate ARN and your chassis appears only to be listed as a comment.
However it is an ongoing debate amongst a few of us about vehicle identities and what happened on the rebuild lines, people who worked there during SVN have told me personally the plates were pulled off when they arrived for the rebuild. The vehicle was then completely stripped down and various major assemblies sent to various stations for checking and repair. If they were within spec they were cleaned and/or re-painted and placed back on the line for build up, often chassis, engines and other components needed significant repair so would be sent to the chassis shop or engine line for overhaul and sometimes return significantly out of order. We have no way of tracking which particular body panels went where or which panels were replaced with new items, we only know what census went into the rebuild line and the census that it came out with. There is also the frequent occurrence where a unit required a vehicle with a particular census returned and sometimes, rather than delaying the return of a vehicle to a unit their allocated ARN was stuck on the next available vehicle with that census. Therefore the ARN plates may be stuck on a collection of major assemblies and body panels that had no relationship to the original vehicle the ARN came in on. The ARN plates themselves were often re-made and affixed at the end of the re-build line.
Given the above various scenario where does the vehicle history attach, to a set of plates that may have no relationship to what's between them or to the identifiable component with the serial number. I have a gun buggy, the chassis number started service spacing a set of ARN plates that went to SVN, it went through the rebuild line after its SVN service. When it exited the rebuild line the original chassis number and original engine number were recorded against another ARN. We have no idea what happened to the original ARN but it appears that is was disposed of about the time of the rebuild. It was my chassis that served in SVN and given that it exited the rebuild line with the same engine number, I choose to believe that my vehicle served in SVN and it spent the remainder of its service with a different identity. Others may have the converse opinion and choose to take the ARN as the history and that's O.K. too.
