The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The 106 Field Workshop, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers compound at 1st Australian Task Force Base, Nui Dat, showing the tank repair building known as the Opera House, left. A Centurion Mk V/1 tank and other vehicles are visible in the background. 106 Field Workshop became operational on 1st November 1968, taking over from the 1st Armoured Squadron Workshop, RAEME.
An Australian Army two and a half ton Mk IV International 4x4 truck at the 106 Field Workshop, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) compound at 1st Australian Task Force Base,
The tank repair building of the 1st Armoured Squadron Workshop, known as the Opera House. A Centurion Mk V/1 tank is visible in the background.
A Centurion Mk V/1 tank undergoing repairs at the 106 Field Workshop compound at 1st Australian Task Force base, Nui Dat. This vehicle has had the rear fuel tank detached and the engine access hatch i
The 106 Field Workshops, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME), part of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), repair anything from a watch to a tank. Here, a member of 106 Field
View of the 1st Armoured Squadron Workshop buildings, Nui Dat. The main structure is the tank repair building and is known as the Opera House.
A Centurion MkV/1 tank having new tracks fitted at the 106 Field Workshop building (known colloquially as the Opera House).
