Canadian Dodge, 3 ton 4x2

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

The reason the immediate post-war civilian fleet had so many ex-military MC types, including the Dodge D60L, plus small numbers of British military types such as WOT, and Bedford QLs, was that these were the vehicles that the military disposed of first and in the largest numbers, while retaining large numbers of the US Military Pattern and Canadian Military Pattern vehicles.


Mike

They were disposing of some British types before the war had finished . The Morris PU here was civilian registered in July 45, I have the rego papers .

An old timer at Whittlesea told me his dad bought a Morris CS8 from the local Morris dealership a few months before the war finished, he took it to the local cop to be registered but because it had no spare wheel ( run flat tyres ) the cop would not register it . So back to the dealers where a complete CS8 was broken up , just to get a spare wheel ! The old chap offered me the rear axle housing from the donor CS8 as it was still on the farm . He said his father traded in the Morris in 1952 for a new Land Rover , this was after two trips to Sydney in the Morris at 40mph towing a horse float !


Colin Anderson told me the Shepparton Morris dealers were selling CS8's just after the war. I'd like to find some newspaper adverts but so far none have been found . Colin said his neighbour had a CS8 with a extended chassis and he offered it to Colin, but Colin said to me " I thought it was too antique looking "