Peterbilt 270

The Peterbilt 270 was a conventional on-highway truck from the 1941 to 1949 generation of Peterbilt models and belongs to the last model line developed by company founder T. A. Peterman. It was a single rear-axle truck, and in the numbering practice of the time Peterbilt gave single rear-axle trucks model numbers starting with 2 and tandem rear-axle trucks numbers starting with 3. The same list that records the 270 names the 334 and 345 beside it in one line, and an Australian history of the marque describes the 270 as the 4x2 of that group, with the 334 and 345 as 6x4 tandem-axle trucks. It followed the Fageol-derived Model 260 and 334 of 1939 to 1941 and was succeeded in 1949 by the Model 280/350 Iron Nose. The sources give its production as 1941 to 1949.