Hello Frans,
Good to hear it is coming to the Netherlands.
Re. serial numbers, this is what I wrote quite a number of years ago in a T16 thread (which has sadly gone missing due to a database glitch):
Quote:
Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra in Wartime T16 pictures
Ford Motor Co. built 13,893 T16 from 1943 through 1945:- S/N 1 through 1000 = USA 40113055 through 40114054 ("Prefix FS (Fort Summerville) assigned to serial numbers 1 thru 1000.")
- S/N 1001 through 6175 = British to assign number
- S/N 6176 through 9923 = USA 40138753 through 40142500
- S/N 9924 through 14443 = USA 40123864 through 40128383 (some apparently cancelled)
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Also see the thread
surviving T16s for pictures of data plates with serial numbers.
Edit: "Fort Summerville" should of course be read as Ford's Somerville plant near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I quoted this from another source which I should have corrected.