Ford P/U - Project

[Ron Pier]

I first did my wireless fit up by copying the PU Humber snipe in Tony Oliver's museum. (19 set). See pic below. He let me have unrestrained access to his museum one Sunday. His wife brought me tea and cakes and then he took me back to Wndsor in his Rolls Royce..... Great bloke and sadly missed!

I then had to do some modifications to the table area once I had acquired my 11 set (cheers Mike) and the drawings from Rory.

Unlike Rory, I'm no carpenter! But I did the whole thing myself using plywood.
There is a lengthy thread here on 11 Sets which has quite a bit of detail/pictures/videos on PU’s and from about page 4, some research we did on the switchboard charging unit and how I built my replica.
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=22184
Ron

[James Y]

A little more progress, attached the tabs to hold the frame to the p/u box and welded the tabs to the tubing. Added the side pieces that the flat steel side pieces go over the canvas to secure the canvas tight to the frame.

[Wayne Hingley]

Nice work Jim. Your progress looks great.
What size pipe (and wall thickness) did you use for the bows and support bars? Did you make the bends and flattened connection points yourself (what tooling)?

[James Y]

Originally Posted by Wayne Hingley

Nice work Jim. Your progress looks great.
What size pipe (and wall thickness) did you use for the bows and support bars? Did you make the bends and flattened connection points yourself (what tooling)?

The tubing for the bows is just 1" electrical conduit, the support bars are 1" thin wall tubing. The flattened areas were done on the sheet metal brake.

Jim

[Alex van de Wetering]

James, lovely work on the wireless body; really nice.

Ron, Mike, Thanks for sharing more info on the British body on the forum!

Alex

[James Y]

A little more progress, flipped it up side down and added the fender supports, need to make the wood frame for the bottom of the floor. I am going to use some fir planks that I have been saving.

[Ian McCallum]

Hi James, apologies for not sending more pics. Have got a few more together and will send by PM after this.

Fantastic work, looks really good. I may have sent this detail before but this is the rear of my WOC1. I have only ever found the one picture of a WOC in a FFW configuration. Being 6 volt they would obviously need to have carried a charging set. Most appear to have been in a GS configuration.

Keep up the good work.