FWD General Service Truck, IWM Duxford.
Part II :-
After the war the U.S government sold or distributed the majority of their Model B's to local governments and municipalities. Three were included in the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy. According to 1st Lt. E. R. Jackson, the official Ordnance Department Observer ''The three Four Wheel Drive Trucks were, in general, the most satisfactory in the Convoy and of all of the various makes represented, the F.W.D.'s alone were able to pull through all of the bad, muddy, and sandy stretches of road in Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada absolutely unaided (emphasis in the original.) He also noted that the Model B's were more reliable than the other vehicles and completed the entire trip on their original tyres but they showed '' a decided tendency to run into the bad spots'' of uneven roads. British machines were returned to the UK from where some were shipped throughout British Empire.
Surplus Model B's proved popular in the postwar Good Roads Movement as their all wheel drive made them ideal municipal and civilian construction vehicles, and FWD survived the postwar recession on the strength of Model B sales and parts. Popular sales tactics included demonstrating the benefits of all wheel drive by driving them up stairs FWD also selected six woman demonstration drivers from their plant workforce to demonstrate the Model B's easy steering, the first of whom, Luella Bates, delivered a Model B from Clintonville to the 1919 New York Auto Show before barnstorming all around the U.S on three transcontinental trips. Some Model B trucks were still being used as construction vehicles and snow ploughs as late as the 1940's.
▪︎Type: 3 ton Truck
▪︎Place of Origin: United States
▪︎Used By: United States / United Kingdom
▪︎Conflicts: World War One / Pancho Villa Expedition
▪︎Manufacturer: Four Wheel Drive Auto Company
▪︎Produced: 1912 to 1919
▪︎Number Built: Over 16,000
▪︎Mass: 5.5 ton unladen / Length: 18ft 6in / Width: 6ft 4in / Height: 10ft 6in
▪︎Powerplant: 4-cylinder Wisconsin petrol, 36bhp at 1,800rpm
▪︎Payload Capacity: 5.0 ton on road / 3.0 ton off-road
▪︎Drive: 4x4
▪︎Transmission: 3F–1R
▪︎Suspension: Live axles on semi-elliptic multi-leaf springs
▪︎Maximum Speed: 15mph.
Part I :- www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/3Wv682
Taken from Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWD_Model_B
FWD General Service Truck, IWM Duxford.
Part II :-
After the war the U.S government sold or distributed the majority of their Model B's to local governments and municipalities. Three were included in the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy. According to 1st Lt. E. R. Jackson, the official Ordnance Department Observer ''The three Four Wheel Drive Trucks were, in general, the most satisfactory in the Convoy and of all of the various makes represented, the F.W.D.'s alone were able to pull through all of the bad, muddy, and sandy stretches of road in Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada absolutely unaided (emphasis in the original.) He also noted that the Model B's were more reliable than the other vehicles and completed the entire trip on their original tyres but they showed '' a decided tendency to run into the bad spots'' of uneven roads. British machines were returned to the UK from where some were shipped throughout British Empire.
Surplus Model B's proved popular in the postwar Good Roads Movement as their all wheel drive made them ideal municipal and civilian construction vehicles, and FWD survived the postwar recession on the strength of Model B sales and parts. Popular sales tactics included demonstrating the benefits of all wheel drive by driving them up stairs FWD also selected six woman demonstration drivers from their plant workforce to demonstrate the Model B's easy steering, the first of whom, Luella Bates, delivered a Model B from Clintonville to the 1919 New York Auto Show before barnstorming all around the U.S on three transcontinental trips. Some Model B trucks were still being used as construction vehicles and snow ploughs as late as the 1940's.
▪︎Type: 3 ton Truck
▪︎Place of Origin: United States
▪︎Used By: United States / United Kingdom
▪︎Conflicts: World War One / Pancho Villa Expedition
▪︎Manufacturer: Four Wheel Drive Auto Company
▪︎Produced: 1912 to 1919
▪︎Number Built: Over 16,000
▪︎Mass: 5.5 ton unladen / Length: 18ft 6in / Width: 6ft 4in / Height: 10ft 6in
▪︎Powerplant: 4-cylinder Wisconsin petrol, 36bhp at 1,800rpm
▪︎Payload Capacity: 5.0 ton on road / 3.0 ton off-road
▪︎Drive: 4x4
▪︎Transmission: 3F–1R
▪︎Suspension: Live axles on semi-elliptic multi-leaf springs
▪︎Maximum Speed: 15mph.
Part I :- www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/3Wv682
Taken from Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWD_Model_B