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Corbitt, a small company which had sold the US Army trucks since 1917, was working on designs for heavy-duty conventional 6x6s trucks. In 1940 their designs for a 6-ton truck and a 10-ton wrecker chassis were standardized, with Corbitt to build 6-ton cargo trucks, while the 10-ton wreckers were contracted to Kenworth Motor Truck Corp. and Ward ...
Prime mover cargo truck Mack NO 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6: 1943–1945: 2,050: Prime mover cargo truck M1 Wrecker 10-ton 6x6 [11] 1941–1945: 5,765: Standard heavy wrecker during WWII Built by Ward LaFrance and Kenworth. Diamond T 980 12-ton 6x4 [12] 1941–1945: 6,554: Tractor for M19 tank transporter Pacific M26 12-ton 6x6 [13] 1943–1945: 1,372 ...
The M425 and M426 were general service load carriers, designed to haul load over roads, so they didn't need to be 4 x 4. The front axle was an I-beam, the rear was a double reduction full floating type. International used their own front and rear axles, Kenworth and Marmon-Herrington used Timkens. Brakes were full air with drum brakes on all ...
For non-sequential numbers, like M1 Abrams, see bottom of list. M1 combat car, also known as the M1 light tank; M1 light motorcycle; M2 light tank, .5" MG or 37 mm gun, 11-ton
Pages in category "World War II vehicles of the United States" ... K-31 truck; K-50 truck; Kenworth 10-ton 6x6 heavy wrecking truck; M. M1 light tractor;
The Diamond T 4-ton 6×6 truck was a heavy tactical truck built for the United States Army during World War II. Its G-number was G-509. Cargo models were designed to transport a 4-ton (3,600 kg) load over all terrain in all weather. There were also wrecker, dump, and other models. They were replaced by the M39 series 5-ton 6×6 trucks in the 1950s.
Mack's design, influenced by their WWII era NO (7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 6x6 truck), was chosen. Designed as an entire family of trucks, only the semi-tractor and cargo/prime mover were built. 392 M123 were built between 1955 and 1957 and 552 M125 were built between 1957 and 1958.
Kenworth traces its roots to the 1912 founding of Gerlinger Motors in Portland, Oregon; the company was a car and truck dealership owned by brothers George T. Gerlinger and Louis Gerlinger, Jr. [4] In 1914, the brothers expanded into vehicle manufacturing, marketing a truck named the Gersix. [4]