I've had a little tinker with this topic and split the Victorian company into a separate post to avoid confusion and added the address of the SA company based on this advertisement from The Mail (Adelaide) 21-7-1934.
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If their self promotion is to be believed then they had been quite successful to that date, mind you it would appear if they had built only half a dozen vans they could probably have truthfully made their claim, there did not seem to be a lot of activity in the caravan industry here at that time. This is the first advertisement I've run across for them to date.
That said though I did find this photo in the Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) dated 10-5-1934, and while the S.A. make isn't specified, I'm very confident it is in fact a Paramount. Sandgate (Brisbane suburb?) is a long way from Woodville, S.A., and one would wonder how the locals would have known of the distant company given the apparent lack of advertising, there must be stuff out there to find. I also wonder how it was transported to Sandgate with the state of the roads at the time, possibly it was sent by rail or ship. Coastal shipping was still a major way of moving goods in the 1930s and GM-H shipped their bodies from Adelaide to interstate assembly plants on coastal freighters. The rail option would have been messy given the four States it may have had to cross all had different gauges. I wonder if we can ever find out for sure?
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George