Carrier country

[gordon]

Well I should have noticed the casting date on that engine.

If it is March 1940 there are two likely military engines, the T202 engine from the VC truck and the T203 engine from the VF truck, both were in production around that time

Refers to his own on-line list here....

Dodge Military Survivors List online - 1940 trucks

If I had to guess I'd suggest it would be a T202 from a VC3 pickup or similar, as a number of VC's passed through the HOLDEN plant some time during WW2 - here's one....



There's no proof, but current opinion is that these were re-conditioned trucks that (like mine) might have passed through the Mount Rainier Ordnance Plant in Washington State after a hard life as training vehicles or on the Alcan projects, and then were shipped out as war aid mid WW2 to get rid of what were then non-standard vehicles.

If it does have a T202-xxxx engine code on the block it will be the only surviving part of a VC truck known of down your way - almost as rare as an MH Light Tank but not quite, as the list above covers all known survivors. The WW2 Dodge Motor Pool chap, Dave Robinson, would be most interested as he has always been looking for VC bits. If it is a T202 it'll be a low compression 201 cu in engine though, not much use for shifting a tank of any description.