Dodge Power Wagon in military use (was: Dodge DD4-60)

[gordon]

The Danes just got chassis cabs I think, so all the bodies were locally built.

The US Army did not buy the PW, at least in quantity. The army was pretty much in charge of procurement but apparently they took a VERY long time to get the M37 into production (and an even longer time to get the M43 ambulance variant going) so the Department of Defence procured PWs for military assistance export and for the Navy and Marines who were not going to hang about waiting for the Army to decide what was happening. This also accounts for the PW Ambulance varaints that turn up quite often with navy and Marine Corps origins.

The truck that started it all looks like a very early post-WW2 transition truck by Chrysler Canada . That engine was fitted to D15, D60, etc and would fit the WW2 front sheetmetal with the radiator mount turned (as in the APT ) I'd expect the body to be interesting - not sure if it would be locally-made or Canadian though.

Gordon