Re coring radiators...

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Petr Brezina

Lynn, there is "FORD GEFA 8242?" on the brass rectangular plate on front top right corner.
On the back side there is a copper slider bar (upside down) marked "Chausson Garantie No. 1773306".
Chausson is a french automotive company, right?
So, another mystery part on my carrier

Judging by the filler neck I'd say Matford truck, perhaps brought to Czechoslovakia by the Wehrmacht. Someone may want this radiator so it would be worth putting on ebay.

http://www.german.o5m6.de/matford.html


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[Lynn Eades]

For the northern guys in cooler climates, Rob's photo shows the tropical core (as Chris V. said, "four and a half") I think these cores are also used in CMP Ford trucks? While I'm being unsure, I think the trucks have the bottom spigots exiting from the bottom of the bottom tank.

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

Judging by the filler neck I'd say Matford truck

Another possibility would be post-war Simca truck, which probably retained the angled filler neck. Simca took over Matford after the war and continued producing flatheads until the '60s, for the Vedette and for their trucks.

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[Lynn Eades]

Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder!

[Petr Brezina]

Yes, could be quite possibly Matford truck! Thanks for this!

[RichardT10829]

Right I have a company making me a new rad, can someone measure the top inlets on a Can/Brit carrier and tell me how far they stick out before bending down.... My originals were chopped so have no reference