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Posted by Gordon [82.35.212.59] on Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 03:43:33 :
I think I've mentioned the WK-60 series workshop trucks here before. A total of 741 ( I think ) cabover Detroit 3 ton chassis made in 1940 and fitted with Welles-Thornton ( Canadian ? ) back bogies, giving a 6 x 4 configuration. Standard workshop body was fitted by the British, though other people liked them as well;
A manual , DX 6557 ( Detroit, eXport, 6557 ) recently came up on E-Pay, and after checking that the owner of the only three surviving trucks I knew had a copy already, I picked it up. Looking through it I turned up one good image of the raw chassis;
You can see the cabover support frame, right hand drive steering, transmission driven winch ( the manual details an overload ignition cutout that will stall the engine if you overload the pull ) and the two winch pulleys on the rear crossmember. Note that the position of the left hand rear pulley allows you to run the winch cable forward to a winch fairlead set on the front left bumper corner so you can winch to the front as well.
There is no specific month/day/year on it, or chassis number range, just 1940, but I thought this would have to be the first Dodge truck series that I have ever seen a factory cabover manual for ?
The rest of it isn't that interesting, being a typical sketchy 1940 Dodge Truck thing, but like most of the export manuals it has the quantities in UK units - Imperial rather than US gallons and so on, plus it does have a procedure for Cab Over cab removal & replacement.
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