A bit of a mix it seems.
The T116 engine comes out of WD-20 and WD-21 built in 3 batches in 1940, 1941 and late 1945. It is a 1-ton vehicle. They were not built to a government order and it looks like they are civilian production. This is out of the USA book.
The chassis number is not a part of the USA production list but was allocated to Canadian production. A whole lot of these were built 8,922,942 through to 8,925,000. They are named model DD-2.
Lots of possibilities, a couple are:
1. The T116 engine is also not original and a replacement (still looking to see what DD-2 Canadian production engine numbers were).
2. The T116 engine was sent to Canada for fitting into the DD-2 models.
Looking for DD-2 production dates also.
Have a read of this. A few errors that I can see but it gives us a much better picture. Looks like the original engine was a Canadian long block not the short US block ie T116.
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hm...s/3710541.html
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