Word origin | Dorse, Cemse

Mavi Boncuk |

Dorse: marka Dorsey[1] Trailer Amerikan kamyon kasası imalatçısı \ 1911
Oldest source:
"TIR tipi kamyon kasası, semi treyler" [ m (1977) : çok az kullanılmış çekici-dorse-tente komple teslim ]

Cemse: marka GMC [2] General Motors Corporation motorlu taşıt markası
Oldest source:
"GMC (marka)" [ c (1948) : kamyon Cemse markalı ve 1942 model olup motör No.su ]
"askeri personel taşıma aracı" [ m (1954) : cemse arabasını idare eden şöför er Şefik, manevra yapmak isterken, 3111 plakalı otobüsle çarpışmış ]

[1]  By 1930, Dorsey engineers had developed the company’s first commercial freight trailers. Dorsey’s sales increased every year, even during the depression, and by the end of the decade truckers coast-to-coast identified the trade name “Dorsey” with durability and safety.

It all started in a converted livery stable located in Elba, Alabama. Pete and Henry Dorsey opened a small machine shop to repair the power saws, boilers and trucks of the booming timber business. They soon started designing and building their own products.


Like many businesses, Dorsey was pushed into military construction in WWII and the Korean War. Their success led to contracts building trailers for rocket systems in the 1960s. As time went on, the company gradually transitioned from logging trailers to flatbed and van trailers. They were also one of the first companies to introduce aluminum construction, adding corrosion resistance and increasing payloads. 2007 marked a new chapter in Dorsey Trailer history. The company was bought by Pitts Enterprises, a nearby company that specializes in logging and construction trailers. Together with Pitts’ other manufacturers, they build a full line of semi trailers to fit every need. 

After a short interlude of peace in the late 1940’s, military production was resumed during the Korean Conflict. The plant was relocated and expanded to meet military and commercial demands.

(pictured in 1954 with Turkish Army soldiers)

[2] The GMC CCKW also known as "Jimmy" was a 2½-ton 6x6 U.S. Army cargo truck that saw heavy service in both World War II and the Korean War. The original "Deuce and a Half", it formed the backbone of the famed Red Ball Express that kept Allied armies supplied as they pushed eastward after the Normandy invasion.[2] The CCKW came in many variants, including open or closed cab, long wheel base (LWB 353) and short (SWB 352), and over a score of specialized models. It began to be phased out with the deployment of the 6×6 M35 in 1950, but remained in active U.S. service until the mid-1960s. It is related to the Chevrolet G506, built at the same factory.

The CCKW came in many variants, including open or closed cab, long wheelbase (LWB) CCKW-353 and short (SWB) CCKW-352, and over a score of specialized models, but the bulk were standard, general purpose, cargo models. A large minority were built with a front mounted winch, and one in four of the cabs had a machine-gun mounting ring above the co-driver's position.

The GMC CCKW began to be phased out, once the M35 series trucks were first deployed in the 1950s, but remained in active U.S. service until the mid-1960s. Eventually, the M35 series, originally developed by REO Motors, succeeded the CCKW as the U.S. Army's standard 2 1⁄2-ton, 6x6 cargo truck.

The name CCKW comes from GMC model nomenclature:

"C", designed in 1941
"C", conventional cab
"K", all-wheel drive
"W", dual rear axles
"X", experimental chassis / non-standard wheelbase (first 13,188 units)

The M939 Truck is a 5-ton 6×6 U.S. military heavy truck. The basic cargo versions were designed to transport a 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) cargo load over all terrain in all weather. Designed in the late 1970s to replace the M39 and M809 series of trucks,