{"id":31111,"date":"2022-01-19T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motos-of-war.ru\/museum-exhibits-vehicles\/dodge-wc-52\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:54:47","slug":"dodge-wc-52","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/motos-of-war.ru\/en\/museum-exhibits-vehicles\/dodge-wc-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge WC-52"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Dodge WC-52 presented in our museum is one of the many models of all-terrain vehicles of the brand produced during wartime. There is a widespread opinion that the abbreviation “WC” means “Weapons Carrier”, but after a more detailed study of the question, it becomes clear that a combination of Latin letters and numbers represent an index, where the first letter stands for the year of production (trucks of 1940 had the index V, and those produced in 1941 and later – W), the second letter stands for payload. In our case, the “C” in the Dodge truck naming system was assigned to half-ton models and was retained for 3\/4- and 1.5-ton models. The code number stood for body type. <\/p>\n\n
Thus, the exhibit in our museum can be deciphered as a “two-axle off-road vehicle made in 1942 with an open-top pickup body, equipped with a winch.” \nIn the USSR, however, the off-road vehicle had a very different name, Dodge Three Quarters, for its 750-kilogram payload capacity. \n<\/p>\n\n
The index V was not mass-produced – only 4,641 units were assembled. \nThe fate of the W index was completely different: Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the country entered World War II, and the Chrysler Corporation (which included Dodge) got a government contract, which literally goldened the concern!<\/p>\n\n