BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THIS

[joel gopan]

Chevrolet 4X4 was not the only G-085 Class Truck. Ford also had a WWII truck classified as a G-085. How Come? Who used it?

[mud-snow]

Would it be the Ford GTB Bomb service truck?
And used by the air force?

Rolf

[joel gopan]

No. That is a good answer, but not quite good enough. I hate to do this to you.
Try again. You might surprise yourself.

I have a NOS Air Cleaner for the other G-085 (G-85), the Army did service them.

[John V Cliche]

I don't if it 4x4 or 4x2 but....
Could it be the late '30s Ford the German army had ?


John

[joel gopan]

You're part way there, think US. It had a G-number assigned to it, but was not standardized, although a few were bought.
One more try.
I don't remember when I firstlearned this , it has just rubbed off after a few decades. The story sort of came together after a lot of years of army trucks and finally seeing this strange aircleaner with a Chevrolet "G" Number. It will not fit any Chevrolet.

[John V Cliche]

Ford had a '41 with a civi cab and mil/std front end they submitted for testing but..I thought that only Chevy got the contract
Could it be the Marmon-Herrington/ Ford on the '40 chassis?
The Signal Corps would probably have received those early trucks


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John

[joel gopan]

The Trucks submitted under Group G085 for development as Bomb Service Trucks were the Diamond T 201BS M1 Bomb Service Truck, it was a 4X2 with a Hercules QXD-3 6 Cyl 229 cu in engine. Ford submitted an M1 Bomb Service 4X2 with the 239 cu in V-8 engine, also a 4X2. They were tested in 1941-1942. The Bomb Service that actually resulted under G085 was the Chevrolet 1 1/2 Ton 4X4 that was Standardised and put into Series production.
The earlier versions were very low production and were used, as evidenced by stateside early war pictures that surface from time to time.

Finding the G085 marked crates with strange air cleaners led me to researching these trucks 40 years ago.

Now you know.

Its mostly in my head, but I have a few unique manuals that assist me in detective work on these topics.