Canadian Dodge, 3 ton 4x2

[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.

Jeeps were disposed of because of the very large numbers involved: the Army did not see a need to retain (store & maintain) some 12 or 13,000 of them for the post-war force. Same for motorcycles: once the Harley Davidson was decided upon as the immediate post-war motorcycle, all the thousands of BSA M20s, etc, were turned over to the Commonwealth Disposals Commission.

Mike