T16 Questions

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Here's another dumb question then... were T-16s issued W/D numbers at the factory as were our Universals?

Geoff, at least s/n's 1001 through 6175 were directly assigned a number by the British WD, the rest was issued a USA registration number first (and a WD census number upon delivery). I doubt there's a relation between the hull serial numbers and WD census numbers, though.

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)