And to really muddy the waters the Australian army were prone to doing things like painting all of the exposed alloy with heatproof aluminium paint and the rest of the bike overpainted all sorts of colours.
When part of a British contingent they left them as is complete with the C numbers but bikes sent directly here could have the C numbers painted over.
So authentic is some what a vexed term

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At first it was just the tank number that was painted over with the Australian tank number as you can see in this photo.

Henk.

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