Canadian Dodge, 3 ton 4x2

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Just looking at the Dodge photos in the parts manual. Similar to other British vehicles it only has one blackout light and no headlights. You can see the Australian Dodges from the same build had full headlights.

Even the bloke who decided to do this could not in his wildest dreams have believed an army vehicle would spend all or even most of its life in a situation requiring night concealment from the enemy.

I wonder how many vehicles were wrecked and how many people died because of this stupidity. I think the more common single full headlight (maybe a blackout light with cover removed) often seen in photos of CMP's was possibly more dangerous as on coming traffic did not know how wide - is it a truck, jeep or motorcycle - and on which side of the road you were.

The American system of both full and blackout lights was much more versatile and safer. Only a few wrecked vehicles because of lack of vision or collision would have paid for proper lights for the whole fleet and allowed trucks to travel much safer, faster and more efficiently in non-combat situations.