I can certainly claim no expertise on this particular one, but I did do some research on Chev and Ford 1/2, 3/4, 1 and 1.5 ton trucks through various period brochures I have. For the most part the 1 tonners look like uprated 1/2 or 3/4 tonners with a longer wheelbase and the same wheel tyre equipment you all have been talking about here. Point being, they looked for the most part like the light truck part of the line rather than being down rated medium trucks.
Having said that, I just ran across a pic of a Canadian Railway Express Fargo described as a 1 tonner which is obviously a downrated medium truck as far as I can tell. Yet another mystery perhaps or a bad ID.
Looking closer at Stellan's pic, I now would judge the vehicle to have some sort of pickup body rather than a GS sort of cargo body I missed that the first time, I do that often nowadays, as I have a number of pics of other Norwegian Fargo trucks as well as Finnish and Spanish ones and they all were obviously 1.5 tonners with GS bodies.
Thus, if it is a pickup and does have single wheel/tyre equipment I now believe it to be a one tonner and that would be consistent with the catalogue information I have on Chev, Ford and Oldsmobile vehicles of the same period.
I will try to post pics of the various 1.5 tonners later when I have more time.
Bill
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