Junior is a truly odd name for this vehicle, especially when you consider that the Junior is quite a large vehicle, and at over 6 foot tall it towers over the smaller pickups in the range. Like several other Nissan vehicles from this era, it's styling was a mix of British and American influences. The Junior was almost a cross between an Austin A40 and a 1950s Ford F100.
The grille on the B40 was a pressed steel design that was painted white. It had three rows of horizontal slots, with the top slots being narrow, the middle ones slightly wider, and the bottom slots being wider again. Under this top section there was a wider section with a series of 14 small vertical slots. This lower section incorporated the front indicators.
In late 1957 the B42 was introduced, which was a minor face lift of the B40. The B42 had a slightly different grille. On the B42 the big horizontal slots are all the same size, and in the lower section it still has 14 vertical slots, but it no longer incorporates the indicators, instead only the top section of the grille goes over the indicators.
The Junior had a seperate ladder chassis and had leaf springs front and back. It sat on large 16 inch split rim wheels and was rated to carry a 1750kg payload.
The B40 Junior was powered by the 1500cc version of the Austin B series OHV 4 cylinder engine, which produced 50hp.
The Nissan Junior B42 was in production until late 1959, when it was replaced by the Nissan Junior B140.
