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United States Army General Depot
US Army Transport and Stores Depot
This depot was the largest US Army vehicle storage and repair facility established in Australia during the World War 2. The warehouses were of an US prefabricated design that utilised prefabricated lattice trusses made from imported Oregon timber. After the war, the depot was handed to the Australian Army that operated the site as the Banyo Army Stores Depot. In 1947, Golden Circle purchased part of the site for its new cannery. The Australian Army vacated the Depot in 2001.
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History
During 1942, the United States (US) Army quarried the left side Earnshaw Road/Tufnell Road corner of the undeveloped site. The quarry closed in March 1943. In April, the US Army decided to redevelop it as a supply base to be known as the Brisbane General Depot. Its boundaries were Blinzinger Avenue (now Crockford Street), Bellare Avenue, Frederick Street, Northgate (now Earnshaw) Road, Bishopgate Road (now the boundary line of the Banyo Railway Workshops), Tufnell Road and back along the eastern fence line to Crockford Street. Numerous vacant allotments and Brisbane City Council (BCC) land were compulsorily acquired under lease by...
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