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The Fargo brand lived longer in a variety of countries under the Chrysler Corporation's badge engineering marketing approach.. Manufactured in Detroit at the Lynch Road facility, Dodge trucks were also offered under the Fargo (or DeSoto) names in most of Latin America, while in Europe and Asia, they were mainly built in Chrysler's Kew plant and sold under either the Fargo or DeSoto badge names.
1940 Fargo-badged truck at the Australian Army History Unit museum. After Dodge supplied the U.S. Army with its first four-wheel drive truck in 1934, more modern 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-tonners were developed, and 1,700 RF-40-X-4(USA) trucks were supplied in 1938, and 292 TF-40-X-4(USA) in 1939.
1940 Fargo-badged truck at the Australian Army History Unit museum. Dodge D15 Canadian Military Pattern truck , shared much with the 1940 VC-series . Well before the onset of World War II, it was clear that the USA needed to update its military.
This is a list of vehicles that have been considered to be the result of badge engineering (), cloning, platform sharing, joint ventures between different car manufacturing companies, captive imports, or simply the practice of selling the same or similar cars in different markets (or even side-by-side in the same market) under different marques or model nameplates.
From 1961 to 1968, General Motors Argentina manufactured Bedford trucks [10] and truck-based buses [11] in a plant at San Martín, Buenos Aires. 1967 Bedford SB mobile cinema In 1967, a Bedford SB3 chassis with Plaxton 's Panorama cab was used in the construction of seven custom mobile cinema units that toured British factories for the Ministry ...
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Early pickups, delivery trucks, and other commercial trucks were available, and later an SUV, full-sized vans, and minivans. Plymouth had supplied components to the Fargo vehicles, another member of the Chrysler family, but entered the commercial market in 1937 with the PT50.
U.S. Army veteran Myron Hennen hadn't had a car in 18 months - not easy in Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small city with frigid temperatures for most of the year, large open expanses and a tight ...