[gordon]

It is Canadian, rather than US (Chassis number and build plate)

All the parts are WW2-style (no PW sheetmetal, standard 1940-47 cab)

Bed could well have been made locally, rather than factory.

I can only conclude that this would have been either a driving chassis-cab, or a knockdown kit, supplied from Canada just after the end of the war and using up WW2 parts.

Standard PW front metal was available from 1946-on (the WDX) and the variant pictured was probably produced in quantities just large enough to use up the parts stock.


It would be possible to determine from the cab metal (where it meets the bonnet) whether it was a WW2 military type with an angle there to meet the sloped bonnet like the half ton military, or whether the cab-bonnet interface was flat like the pre-war and post war civilian trucks and the PW's

Only bonnet type that would fit that truck as pictured is the 42-45 WC 53 and WC 54 Carryall and Ambulance one. Never seen another truck like this one...