Vintage Work Trucks

Two WW2-era photos; State Library of Victoria

 

'New Guinea, military operations, Lae and Salamaua' - State Library New South Wales

 

Does that first truck of the three photos have a Chevrolet bowtie emblem on the top of the radiator ??

 

Yes, it's the Chevrolet bowtie.

 

'New Guinea, Giropi Point' - State Library of New South Wales

 

Canadian Military Pattern Vehicles (CMP) – www.captainstevens.com

https://truck-encyclopedia.com/ww2/canada/Canadian-Military-Pattern-truck.php

Over the 410,000 CMP trucks "made in Canada" GM trucks alone represented 201,000, Ford making the rest, with 4x4, 3-ton trucks (Chevrolet C60S and C60L, Ford F60S and F60L) being the majority (209,000). Chrysler delivered 180,000 Dodge trucks, and again 3/4 were 3-ton trucks. But they differed from the CMP pattern, as having the standard Dodge control cabins, 2-in (50 mm) longer wheelbases and two-wheel drive. 9,500 more extra 4x4 CMP ch***is were also reverved for conversion into armoured cars.

 

This one's a Ford. 'A.I.F. engineers, New Guinea, World War II' - State Library of Victoria

 

'Army men of the 7th Division as they prepare for and march through the streets of Brisbane, Queensland' - State Library of Victoria