PROV pics

Good bit of history. Maybe Gladys got her votes from the Navy not the Marines?

Everything gets sensationalised. They were safely set up on the outskirts of a city twice the size of San Francisco in "hard" conditions. Just shows how people are promoted beyond their level of competence.

No door on the ladies' showers! 20 minute fix instead of whining to higher headquarters. Everything on the list was fixable within the resources of the unit but the officers shot through to live in the pub while the boys were left to their own resources.

Despatch riders with messages "strapped" to their bodies with orders to shoot. Give us a break! My dad's second partner was one of the girls at the Naval Intelligence Section in Victoria Barracks processing the information received from Moorabbin and elsewhere. She said they all just had a tiny bit of the puzzle to work on and never got to know the overall outcome of anything they saw.

 

There is more to Gladys: there are Marriott family here in my district and one of them is into family history in a big way. I showed her the Gladys pic and yes " she is my distant cousin, they had a market garden in Moorabbin ". 

The DeSoto army ute, I had one back years ago, in nice original condition, also had the Plymouth version which was still registered , I drove the Plymouth home.  At the time,  I didn't have the restoring skills, tools and space to store them under cover, so I passed them onto a guy in the Chrysler club. Where are the utes now !  Another club member also had two of them.  A restored example is in QLD . 

I wrote a story for the Plymouth car club USA magazine about these utes. The editor had never heard about a 1941 Plymouth car based pickup. 

 
 

Very nice ute. I would swap my GMC ute for it any day.

West.Aust State library pics 
Lady Mitchell on behalf of the Red Cross Society handing over an ambulance to Surgeon-Commander D. S. Prentice who received it on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy, 29 November 1944.  slwa_b2813154_1 — [/417.3 KB] View all   View on SLWA catalogue Search the catalogue

 
 

Victoria Collections pics

Ballarat tramway truck  victoriancollections.net.au/items/6493f269441d47e609791648

 

 

This looks like a ex army Ford , Ballarat tramways , still in use  in 1969




tram being moved 

 


 

 


Electric lorry ay Geelong circa 1910 

 

 

Miss V. Annear who is employed by the United State Navy as a communication driver, 1942slwa_b2389508_4 — JPG/226.0 KB

Perth West. AUSTRALIA  1942. 

 

I could almost swear that M&MTB Bedford is wearing "garden state" plates from the late 70's. I must be seeing that wrong. When I left Victoria in 1978 it was all J and TK Bedfords among the Dodges and Inters. To be fair, these are the memories of an eight year old...

Jarrod.

Used to see old tramways gear around long after then ASW. Not sure how long they kept them.