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if you look at the photo the steering wheel is of to the left of her not directly in front of her, i think it is left hand drive my self.
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I agree with James that it appears that the wheels is on the left of the driver, and that she is exiting out the right-side passenger's side. I can see with these tired eyes what I believe is the speedo in the centre. The R01T Van was a diverted Romanian Ford order, the Romanian Ford plant being a subsidiary of Ford of Britain, and used a lhd ex-US front end off the 01T. The spare wheel was evidently on the right side as it was a lhd chassis intended for a right-driving country. I am attaching a repro of the 1942 Ford i.d. sheet.
The other possibility is the E98C or 91C, the commercial version of the 91A sedan, which was 15-cwt rated: the E98C had a 4-cylinder 24 hp anfd the 91C a 30 hp V-8, with the '39 I think front end, and according to the illustration accompanying the text, a left-side mounted spare wheel. On checking, WD trucks, back to 1935-6 had right-mounted wheels either on the right door or on the right side of body, probably, but I have to be careful here, because they were US-sourced vehicles assembled in Dagenham.
That's the best I can come up with, under correction of course! The only other candidate, the W0A2 Utility Car, had its spare wheel at the rear, so if there was a van version then the wheel would not be right-mounted.