Help please 4!
 

Thanks for all the input guys! Here's an oddity...post-war....Command Carrier?

Dodge WC56 Command car. WC57 had the winch fitted.

Cheers
Cliff :)

33 seconds to get an answer must be a record Huh? so what's my prize? :D

Cliff :note:

Correct?
 

Yes that's what I thought! Lhd of course...British vehicle I suggest. Prize? I shall see what I can find!

Mid 1942 WC 56
 

As all of us Dodge folk can see it 's an early one, with the symettrical headlight grilles and no blackout light on the drivers side - so probably near my own WC 56 date of July 42.

Early trucks such as this had genuine leather seat covers and no provision for jerrycans or universal rifle brackets. A few of the very early ones had no pioneer rack mountings on the tailgate but can't tell from this angle....


Gordon

Assembly plant?
 

Gordon, can you please remind me where your Dodge was assembled? Pearsons definitely didn't do any in Liverpool but they did the 1/2- and three-tonners.

Mound Road, Detroit
 

Like nearly all the US-sourced WW2 Dodges, David.

I believe at that time they were all shipped in one piece, with protected windscreens and the like. My WC 56 was 306th Bomb Group and was probably issued to them in the US and freighted into Greenock autumn 1942 with the ground echelons and support staff. It could have been freighted in bulk and issued here, but no evidence for that.

It had standard USAAF stuff, or rather it didn't have the stuff the army put on after issue, like rifle brackets, jerry can carriers, and the like. It was more distinguished by the stuff that wasn't there - silly, eh? Stuff like jerry can carriers would have been fitted by the using arm, but the running boards on my truck were never drilled for them, either at the factory or by the using arm - fairly unique in that respect.

The truck in your photo looks pretty much the same.

Gordon