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Here's some information - mostly about what it isn't. Uncle Sam procured a bunch of WF 32s on military contracts, and this is one of them. Apart from the right hand drive and the unusual wheels it isn't that 'rare' if you understand me. I've only ever seen those cage wheels on US trucks, I...

Early-ish half ton Dodge WC. Code on the engine will probably be T207 or T211 if you clean it. Frank is right about the dual wheels. I don't think this was a dual wheel unit from the factory, as the Maintenance trucks and the like ( that had factory duals ) had helper springs on the back axle...

WC 62 it isn't, by a long way BURMA DODGE TRUCKS These have the big 331 cu in six in them, 190" wheelbase, and they all went to that theatre to work. The only known location for survivors is Australia, where there are a handful. Charles bought one in Australia and brought it back to the US...

E-Pay I'm sure that's the same oddball size I have on the axle mounts for my 1944 and 1950 M19 ski/wheel trailers. I wrecked a couple getting them off (to preserve the stub axle) thinking they would be easy to find, but in the end I just had to get them from E-Bay, took a while, cost a bit...

A couple of similarities with here in the UK One chap here wanted a track laying vehicle license and took the test in his Universal (Bren) Carrier - I'd have loved to see that. My Sno-Cat steers by articulation rather than track braking, so you could argue that I wouldn't need that license, but...

Of course when you had the railway wheels on it, you'd need a matching trailer to tow... My Nolan Road / Rail trailer, to tow behind a Dodge I'm making like this...

Is your truck on the survivors list? if not, send me all the info and a pic to; Gordon@Dodge.org.uk ... and I'll add it for you. http://www.gwim2.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vc200401.htm As for the dash and firewall holes, the VC 3 should be exactly the same as the civilian Dodge half...

WHIFFLETREE or WIPPLETREE, originally the triangular wooden frame that was attached to the front of a wagon so you could hook it up to the horse(s) with a single point tow. Now usually the big lump of metal dangling from the front bumpler of a WLF wrecker or Dragon Wagon to give you a single...

The late "Buzz" Mueller had a page on making these out of, I think, CCKW rims with jeep centres added, but I've checked and the page is now gone ....

Greek army Those were all Greek army jeeps. All originals, no postwar stuff at all that I know of. They were sold off years ago in one lot, and went to Belgium or Holland where one dealer just stacked them in racks like that - hence the impressive photographs. At that time, maybe five or...

Get the head on ... Get the head back on, fill it up with water, and pressurise the water jacket as mentioned above. Pull the distributor out as a unit, and look down the bore of the distributor tube in the block for water running down (you really need to pressurise it to see it). If you...

Auction: Véhicules Militaires Américains 2e Guerre Mondiale & divers - Demade Enchères EURL Bernay -  05/04/09 I particularly noticed no less than four Dragon Wagons, and I don't think anyone here wouldn't find something they liked on one of the six pages of the listing. Early April, down...

Trailer technical question Many of those trailers were made as M15A1s, but a lot of the original M15 trailers were converted to A1 spec by having side reinforcements added. Has your trailer got a date on it? Was it made as an M15A1, or is is a WW2 M15 with the A1 conversion? There are quite...

I'd like to find one of those here. M26A1 (12 volt) or M26A2 (24 volt) some were built that way, some were rebuilt hard cabs. The winch pack just lifts off with a few mounting pins, and it looks like that fifth wheel is smaller than the original which was oversize. Still well worth having

RE: Some pics Nice, those two that are sitting in the field - are the rear bogies off? I know you could remove the rear bogie quite quickly, pull the whole lot for maintenance. You could take the twin winch pack off th back similiarly quickly. It's worth noting again that all the ones shown...

1372 built That's the number quoted, to include all three types (M26, M26A1, M26A2) No-one quotes an exact split of the types, as some of the early ones were later rebuilt as M26A2. Armoured ones tended to end up in Europe, (France, italy, Germany, Scandinavia) where they are not that...

The armour on the M26 was a good idea, but probably not that useful. It added about ten tons to the weight of the tractor unit, ballpark 25 tons with armour and 15 tons without. You had to take out the windows to put the armoured shields in place, and it wouldn't have stopped much more than...

Well done for grabbing that, I'm jealous. It looks like the fifth wheel was just ripped off it, but the chassis aren't that hard to come by (I'm talking relatively here...they made 1372 according to the book) Original engine, winches, cab roof frame, even the USA number - good stuff. Check...