Dover

Dover was a short-lived make of light trucks owned by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan. Hudson announced the brand in July 1929 under the line Dover, built by Hudson Motors, and based the trucks on the chassis of its Essex car. At launch buyers could choose a screenside express, a canopy express, an open flatbed, a panel delivery or a bare cab and chassis, priced from 595 to 895 dollars, with bodies supplied by Hercules of Evansville, Indiana. The United States Postal Service was the largest buyer and ran some of the trucks for mail transport and delivery into the 1950s. Dover was withdrawn in 1930 or 1931, and Hudson's production records do not settle which. Hudson also sold similar trucks under the Essex name through 1932, after which a new Terraplane line replaced them. Very few survivors are known, and a restored mail truck is displayed at a Hudson museum in Shipshewana, Indiana.