Seeing as how this has turned into a general 8 cwt thread, here's an interesting tidbit. I went on a tour in Alberta and took data plate pictures off three different Cab 12 F8s with 1B1 bodies in various locations. All three were made on 11/11/41. The numbers are:
serial 21596; motor 2G-49103-F; body 256
serial 21629; motor 2G-48956-F; body 19
serial 21634; motor 2G-51641-F; body 12
The body serials are Beath with a 411AC prefix. The first two were wireless bodies and the third was a GS body(no bolt holes in the floor or fenders) like the previously mentioned Alberta truck.
That shows that when they were being built the motors and bodies weren't in any order on the production line.
The second one was the only one with running boards and the first one still has the top bows.
