help with identifcation 1944 dodge please

[gordon]

Normally 1" below the top edge of the chassis rail, just behind front left spring, front hanger.

The T116 engine may well have been the original. The 120" wheelbase marks it as a one ton WD20 / DD2, and if original the short running boards would be for either a pickup or a flatbed. Normally a pickup body would have conventional rear springs and single wheels, while a flatbed would have heavier springs and maybe overload springs, and dual rears.

Those rear hubs will take dual wheels, but the rear dual wheels had a special small offset rim.

I didn't see an answer to whether it was RHD and was the screen fixed in place. If it is RHD, are the holes in the LEFT chassis rail for the left hand drive steering box setup drilled through? Normally they would be blank in one thickness of the rail. If they are all drilled through it may have started as a LHD truck.