Engineering:Autocar Dispatch

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Autocar Dispatch
Vintage Autocar logging truck at Forest Resource Education Center.jpg
Overview
ManufacturerAutocar Company
Production1928-1932
AssemblyPittsburgh
Body and chassis
ClassTruck
LayoutFR
RelatedAMO-2
AMO-3
ZIS-5
Powertrain
EngineAutocar I6
Transmission4-speed manual + 2-speed gearbox
Chronology
PredecessorAutocar Model A
SuccessorAutocar DF

The Autocar Dispatch was a series of commercial vehicles produced by the Autocar Company from 1928 to 1932. The truck was the company's new six-cylinder vehicle of 1.5 and 2.0 tons, that replaced the older Autocar Model A trucks.[1] The Dispatch series of trucks was very popular in the United States and was a common truck on the road during the 1930s and the 1940s.

The Dispatch series of trucks, was also produced under license in the Soviet Union under the AMO-2 name from 1931 to 1932, when it was modernized as the AMO-3 and then as the ZIS-5 that was produced until 1958, with nearly 1 million vehicles produced in the Soviet Union alone. The production of the vehicle in the United States ended in 1932, when the series was replaced by the Autocar DF trucks.

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