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The name of this article would at first suggest a focus on models that are indeed called Dodge WC-numbers, either 4x4 or 6x6. However, the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps' central Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) Supply Catalog, covering the WC series, conveys both by its title, "SNL G-657 – Master Parts List, Dodge Trucks", as well as by the explicit types list on its second page, that (because of ...
The ½-ton Dodge G-505 trucks (pictured right) were the first light 4WD trucks provided to U.S. troops (in 1940–1941), that they sometimes called 'jeeps'. During 1941, Ford, Willys and Bantam each received orders to build at least 1500 pre-production ¼-ton units (Willys MA pictured left); and in late 1941, Dodge had redesigned their WC ...
A Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle produced by Dodge, it was a militarised version of Dodge's W200 3 ⁄ 4-ton pickup. [19] Dodge M1918: 1 ⁄ 2-ton truck 4x2: 1918 Produced by Dodge to carry tools to repair vehicles, machinery and artillery; at least 1,012 were delivered to the US Armed Forces during World War I. [20] Dodge T-234 'Burma truck ...
M6 WC-55 top schematic. The 37 mm GMC M6 was a modified 3/4-ton 4x4 Dodge WC52 truck with a rear-facing 37 mm M3 gun mounted in its bed and designated WC55.The gun was normally fired to the rear – it could not be fully depressed when pointed to the front of the vehicle due to blast effects on the crew and vehicle windshield.
Chevrolet & Dodge: slant box: telephone K-50B truck: 3/4 ton: 4x4: Dodge WC-61: square box: telephone K-51 truck: 1.5 ton: 4x4: Chevrolet G506: panel van: K-52: SCR-299: K-52 trailer: 1 ton: 1 axle: Ben Hur trailer: power: PE-95: SCR-299, SCR-399 K-53 truck [15] 2.5 ton: 6x6: GMC CCKW: van multi purpose: K-54 truck: 1.5 ton: 4x4: Chevrolet G506 ...
The 3 ⁄ 4 ‑ton WC-54 was designed as successor to the previous 1/2-ton, 4×4, G-505 models WC-9, WC-18, and WC-27 Dodge Ambulance trucks. [2] Although based on the 3/4-ton Dodge "Beep" chassis, which front and rear axles featured wider tracks of 64 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (1.64 m), the 3/4-ton ambulance versions retained a longer wheelbase, very close to that of the previous half-tonners, as well as ...
Eventually, the military trucks were substantially redesigned, and uprated to 3 ⁄ 4-tons with a 230-cubic-inch engine producing 92 hp. Together with the 1 ⁄ 2-tons of 1941, these were built from 1942 until the end of the war as the Dodge WC series military trucks.
The one-ton trailers were designed to be towed by vehicles rated 3 ⁄ 4-ton and upwards, like the Dodge WC series trucks, as well as 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x4 trucks, and 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6 trucks, [3] such as the Chevrolet G506 and the much used GMC CCKW trucks. The G-518 trailers were among the Allies' most built and used models with a total of ...