Dodge WC43 history








WC43

The WC43 is a telephone repair service truck, used to roll-out and repair telephone lines connecting headquarters with command posts in the frontline.

From the scarce information that available is on the web it appears that some 370 examples were built on the orders of the American army in 1942 following their entry into the war in December 1941. A follow-up order was never issued so only these 370 were built by Dodge who then switched production from that time to building the more common WC51 with the T214 engine.

WC43
WC59
In 1943 a new Telephone Maintenance truck based on the WC51 was produced with the typenumber WC59. It had a similar bed but had a softtop in stat of a hardtop. Dodge built at least 549 of these trucks.

WC43


WC43
   
Designed and built by the Dodge Division of Chrysler Corporation in Mound Park Michigan, from 1942-1943.

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