FARGO Truck

Baz - No, your memory is just about spot on .. but you're 2 cyls short. The Perkins P6 was available as a factory option from 1950. There's one for sale at Merredin, but it's in pretty sad shape.

83HP at 2400 RPM wouldn't exactly tear up the bitumen, or give you passing power against highway-rated K-Whoppers .. but I understand they were good on fuel.

Assessor - Yep, I gotta agree with Baz. That old Kew Dodge has a frontal style that could only have been dreamt up, after a bad night of cheese-induced nightmares.

Cheers, Ron.

Head like a robbers dog!!

Is that also the same cab as Fordson Thames/Trader?

48Bedford - It appears to be largely similar, but the Dodge/Fargo has a different bulkhead and dash panel, with a big upward-pointed section under the windscreens.

The Dodge/Fargo have wind-out, top-hinged, "tropical" windcreens. This was the 50's version of flow-through cab ventilation ..

Onetrack
According to my Fordson truck owners manual the opening windows were 'fog windows', to be opened to prevent your windscreen fogging up on cold mornings, but I'll bet more were opened on hot days than cold english mornings.
Graham

Graham, I guess that must be an individual company interpretation, then. Leyland, AEC, and all the other British manufacturers that exported their vehicles, nearly always referred to opening windcreens, as "tropical" windcreens, to be opened for improved cab ventilation and hot air removal, in hot climates.
Can anyone remember the Series 1 & 2 Landrovers, with their little hinged vents under the windscreens, that were actuated by small ratcheting levers? They were great in hot weather.

Ron ..

Graham, I guess that must be an individual company interpretation, then. Leyland, AEC, and all the other British manufacturers that exported their vehicles, nearly always referred to opening windcreens, as "tropical" windcreens, to be opened for improved cab ventilation and hot air removal, in hot climates.
Can anyone remember the Series 1 & 2 Landrovers, with their little hinged vents under the windscreens, that were actuated by small ratcheting levers? They were great in hot weather.

Ron ..

Land Rover continued with the front vents right up to the latest model the puma.

Winde out windscreen on the K series Inters worked pretty good also.

Basil

is it still available how much do you want

I am interested if the truck is still available. Please supply contact details of owner. Scorpio 2655