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The Standard B Truck, commonly known as the Liberty Truck is a military vehicle used during World War I by the United States Military. Production of this U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps-designed vehicle began in 1917.

History
Accustomed to using horse-drawn vehicles, the United States Army first extensively used motorized trucks in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. In 1913, the Quartermaster Corps formed a design committee comprised of Quartermaster officers, members of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and volunteers from the automotive industry to design a fleet of standardized, non-commercial military trucks to be put into production following the United States' entering World War I in 1917. The Army planned to contract components from various manufacturers&mdash;including Four Wheel Drive, Marmon, Reo, White, and Ford&mdash;to carry out assembly of the trucks in central locations. Early cooperation led to pilot models being built just ten weeks after standardization.

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 * Hart, Albert Bushnell (1920). Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War. New York: Harper & Brothers, pp. 292–294. Retrieved on July 17, 2009.