Dodge D-15 and D-60 info

[Mike K]

http://forum.ww2dodge.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8893

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

http://s908.photobucket.com/albums/a...D15/?start=all

CC60L:
http://i908.photobucket.com/albums/a...plWoods078.jpg

which is annoying to me as I have just found a new Mid-East allocation series for trucks delivered under S/M 2005 direct to Egypt.

[gordon]

Hello David,

seeing your name pop up reminded me of a question I was asked this last week about one ton WW2 Dodges.

We know the Canadians built a pile of 133" one ton panel vans for the Commonwealth Forces, as they are seen in brochures and in a good few period shots, mostly in north Africa kitted out as Ambulances.

I'm sure when we chewed though this some time back we noted that there were bundles of 133" and 120" wheelbase trucks procured, which puzzled me, as although every single one of the one ton 133" wheelbase trucks could have been panel vans ( possible, but unlikely I'd suggest ) the 120" one tons would have to have been pickups, as that chassis length only came as pickups ( half ton panel van is 116" wheelbase, one ton panel van is 133" wheelbase, but one ton pickups came as either 120" or 133" wheelbase )

Can you give me an indication of the total number of 120" and 133" wheelbase trucks procured on S/M's please? If there were relatively few 120", then it might just have been a handful of pickups for general use that never left Canada, but if there were a substantial number of 120", even if quantities of 120" and 133" were relatively similar, we might infer that 120" one ton pickups were shipped and used up the sharp end - we just haven't seen pictures.

Thanks in advance for any numbers you can give.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I don't have any numbers other than it seems the Census Numbers allocated to donated panel vans used as ambulances. I have put my file on the internet as a doc file as I don;t have the facility now to save as html files these days.

I do however have a parts list with all Canadian and US trucks delivered as Dodges or Fargos and they seem to have serial numbers. There is also a list of numbers for US war contracts which has been interesting to peruse.

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/...k/wardodge.doc

[gordon]

it's this section that looks to be of interest;

There is also a 1940-41 1-Ton T-116: CANADIAN DODGE DC2-20 T-116-120 120” w.b. and DC2-33 T-116-33 T-116-133 Serials # 8916601 to 8918281

I didn't grasp that it only covered 1680 trucks, but there you go. It was the split between T-116-120 ( have to be pickups ) and T-116-133 ( panel or pickup ) that would have told me what I needed to know.

However the fact that all the census numbers you have were for use as ambulances suggest that all the ones used outside Canada may well have been 133" panel ambulances.

regards

Gordon

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I am sure this photo was featured on here before, cannot find it so I thought this was the right thread yo (re-)post it. More pictures of these French troops can be found here: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...747#post227747

1941 Dodge Military Trucks Press Photo.

Food Carried to Paris in US Trucks Driven by French.

Frenchmen drive U.S. trucks into a pool area just after they were unloaded from ships which brought them under lend-lease from England. The trucks will be loaded with food at the Normandy beaches and will then travel in convoys to Paris.
dodge19410066_176234.jpg

Source: https://www.autopaper.com/1941-dodge...photo-0066.php

[Ilian Filipov]

1941 ???