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| The Australian Pattern Signals Van |
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| Known as the Sigvan or Pievan, this is a design unique to GM-H in Australia. It was a steel body insulated with caneite, a soft board made from pressed sugarcane pulp after the sugar had been extracted, and covered with plywood with a top layer of light plywood.. This is probably the most commonly found full-bodied CMP today. They were built on both the C15 and C15A chassis. GM-H designated them WO12 models. |
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| Army portraits of a C15A version of the wireless truck taken at Wesley in Melbourne. |
The cab was partitioned from the bodył Steel sliding panels were provided
for windows in the front and rear door. |
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| A Canadian F15A based wireless van was imported and it is likely the Australian
version was developed from this. The main difference was the Holden version
incorporated an integral body with a similar (but not the same) profile
to the #9 artillery tractor |
Note the Australian ARN 123199. This body survived at Hughes Trading in poor condition until 2000. |
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| The step in the roof was higher than that of the CGT #9. The contraption
at the right is a counterbalanced LMG mount for antiaircraft protection,
usually used with a bren gun. |
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| Some factory images of completed bodies awaiting mating to chassis. |
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| See also Sigvan survivors |
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