History:
In 1939, Dodge introduced a completely redesigned line of pickups and trucks with streamlined, Art Deco style sheet metal fronts. With the introduction of the "Job- Rated" concept, Dodge tried to offer customers the truck that matched the job they were buying it for. As a result, from 1939, the Dodge pickup/truck range offered an exceptionally large number of available variants. Six different payloads, a wide range of bodies, more than twenty different wheelbase lengths were produced and equipped with different sized versions of Chrysler-derived in-line six-cylinder side-valve engines, from a half-tonne TC pickup with 116-inch wheelbase to three-tonne tractor cabs. Nonetheless, the trucks were all very similar mechanically, with solid axles front and rear and leaf springs at all four corners. As the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 took up most of the production capacity, the design remained largely unchanged from 1939 to 1947 as technology and production moved into focus.
Government contract number W-398-QM-10595.
Number Built 362, Closed Cab, 1941
- Seats: 2
- Displacement: 3`568 cm3
- Power: 31.70 kW = 43.41ps
-Maximum speed: 81,3 km/h
- Empty weight: 1`430kg
- Payload: 837 kg
- Total weight: 2`267 kg
- roof load: 50kg
Special features / information:
Outside:
- Colour red with black accents.
- White-wall grooves
- Spare tyres under the chassis
- All Dodge Bros.
- Steel- Wood Chassis
- glass window
Interior:
- Workshop-restored interior.
- 3-speed gearbox, 3 forward 1 return.
- Cab ventilation via flap on the bonnet
- Extendable windscreen.
Mechanical:
- 201 CID L head 6 cylinder.
- 3-speed manual gearbox / not synchronized
- 6 Volt electric / -12 Volt electric
