Militor truck

3-ton truck Ordnance Department Model 1918
Militor 3-ton truck
Type3-ton (2,722 kg) 4x4 truck and artillery tractor
Place of originUnited States
Service history
In service1919–1929
Used byUnited States
Production history
DesignerMilitor Corporation
Designed1917-1918
ManufacturerMilitor Corporation, Winther Motor and Truck Company
Produced1918-1921
No. built81
Variantstractor (with four-wheel steering, winch, and sprag)
Specifications
Mass10,300 lb (4,700 kg)

EngineWisconsin Model A (4-cyl,
390 cu in (6.4 L))
36 hp (27 kW)
TransmissionMerchant & Evans Quartermaster B
Maximum speed 15 mph (24 km/h) (up to 25 mph (40 km/h) on roads)

The Militor truck, officially 3-ton truck, Ordnance Department Model 1918, was designed and built by the Militor Corporation for the United States Army Ordnance Department as a standardized four-wheel drive 3-ton truck and artillery tractor toward the end of World War I. With the end of the war, larger orders were cancelled and 75 were built, these being issued to the Artillery Corps.[1][2]

  1. ^ Crowell, Benedict; Wilson, Robert Forest (1921). The Armies of Industry II: our nation's manufacture of munitions for a world in arms, 1917-1918. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 670.
  2. ^ Mroz, Albert (2009). American Military Vehicles of World War I: an illustrated history of armored cars, staff cars, motorcycles, ambulances, trucks, tractors and tanks. Jefferson: MacFarland & Company Inc. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-786-4-3960-7.