Dodge assembly in Tianjin.

From 1936 on, small Dodge trucks were assembled in Tianjin.

In Tianjin assembled Dodge chassis+ cab. Photo from Frazar Graphic magazine.

The Dodges were put into crates in the USA and sent to China.

There the trucks were assembled.

The factory was called “The Frazar Assembly Plant“. The owner was the E.W. Frazar  & Company (Tianjin Gongmao Yanghang).

The truck which was assembled, was the Dodge (道奇 卡车) 1.25 ton truck,  either as a single chassis, a chassis+cab, or as a pickup, or as a bus.

The original 1939 US Dodge truck.

I have no information about production figures.

Other Dodge trucks of the same model (but bigger)  were delivered to China via the land lease during the 2nd World War and also to the Guomindang after war (including some of the WK-series, or the T203 and the T234).

Dodge T203. USA deliveries for the Guomindang, 1945-1949.
Dodge T203 in Hangzhou, photo copyright Oliver Barnham, Zhejiang province registration, April 1981.

Shanghai scrapyard, another Dodge T203, with left a Jiefang CA10 and right a Landrover Defender. Photo copyright Oliver Barnham, Summer  1981.

And of course the Dodge T234, as we have described earlier.

Dodge T234 truck in the PLA army. Source unknown. 
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