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There is a Build Card thread on the WW2 Dodge Forum; http://forum.ww2dodge.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7441 If you read that whole thread you should cover most of it Gordon

Well that moves us forward a little, from a quick look at the card.... South African destination mid war means it is a Detroit built export truck, and SA was / is RHD which explains that. The body code is '12' which is the code for a cab and chassis, so it had no body on it when it left the...

Dave is talking about stainless trim on the lower bars on each side - like the one missing bar. My best guess there is that the 1941 model front was designed with these extra trim pieces in mind, and the mounting holes for them were punched in the front grille for a good few trucks, but only a...

Be sure to post an image here please - some of the WW2 Dodge Forum contributors have done a bit of interpretation work on about a hundred Build Cards and may spot something you don't - my military OD 1939 TD turned out to have been bought by the US Treasury; ... but they probably used it for...

I've been back over the images and it is an absolutely stock 41 - 45 unit apart from the wheels and the right hand drive. That chassis number tells me it is Detroit built, and it is definitely a 1.5 ton WF, as the 1 ton equivalent WD had a different type of wheel altogether - a standard Budd...

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...