help with identifcation 1944 dodge please

[Brian Gallaghan]

Thank you all so much for your help, I had tried doing my own research but just couldn,t get anywhere.
I now know what my truck started out as, and that it has had a few changes over the years, with a interesting history.

A real credit to Dodge for making the parts of these trucks so interchangable

Thanks again
Brian G

[gordon]

The one ton was a popular truck to convert to an ambulance, donated from various charitable organisations and so on.

I have images somewhere of a transitional truck, with 1941 sheetmetal but still with the earlier 1939 / 1940 Budd disc wheels.

I have seen images of them in use as general hacks in North Africa and Egypt, and I suspect they did remain in production during WW2 but in relatively small quantities for essential civilian use. I have a WD 21 panel van from late 1940, after the model year cutoff, that was produced at the Los Angeles plant.

[Lang]

Brian

Your T110-L6 engine comes from a short wheelbase (136") 3 ton Dodge truck. These were in continuous Canadian production throughout the war.

Lang

[Lang]

While we are concentrating on 1 ton Dodges we forget that Chrysler Canada continued to produce thousands of similar Fargo branded machines right through the war.

Apart from a bit of trim and Fargo marked engines (identical to the same Dodge branded engine) they were the same truck. Many of these were to government orders.

Plymouth and Desoto branded trucks also came down the line.

Here is an Australian Fargo.