Posted by Matt Wilson on Saturday, March 10, 2001 at 1:24AM :
In Reply to: honeycomb radiator( just wondering) posted by jan on Wednesday, March 07, 2001 at 8:45PM :
I believe all the civilian Power Wagons, and most or all of the WWII 3/4-tons had the fin-and-tube type of radiator, not the honeycomb type. I just looked at the one in my '49 flatfender PW, and it has the fin-and-tube type. Dodge (and probably other makes) started doing this commonly in WWII, so that the radiators could be made to continue working by simply pinching off a tube, if it developed a leak. The book, "Dodge Military Vehicles, Collection No. 1," mentions this.
Once again, the war effort drove practicality, ruggedness and durability.
Matt
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