Ford Data Plate

[Colin Alford]

Tony,

If you enlarge the image, you should be able to see 4 and 2 on either side of the arrow pointing to “High”, and 4 and 4 on either side of the arrow pointing to “Low”.

I would like to introduce some images comparing C60-Handbook British 1 alongside C60-Handbook Canadian 1.

C60-HB1 was published in November 1943 and it’s layout conforms to the British 16 Task Maintenance Routine.

C60-HC1 was published in October 1944. Canadians used the “Compulsory Preventive Maintenance Schedules (C.P.M.S. 1,2 and 3 including the Six Task System) by the Canadian Army Home, while the Six Task System was used by the Canadian Army Overseas. The layout is different to complement the Canadian Maintenance routines and it includes updated instructions/ illustrations on the vehicle.

By October 1944, Chevrolet was using separate levers for PTO and Transfer Case Operation. The Transfer Case lever only had three positions, High with front axle disengaged, Neutral, and Low with front axle engaged.

If Ford made changes similar to Chevrolet then I think this data plate could actually belong to a CMP.