1940 Ford truck ID please

[ccooperaus]

Thanks Tony. Being 4x2 it has the 2piece rims. One pic I posted shows body stamp #, so possible chassis, original engine #. I haven't had a chance to look at # on gearbox yet. Son seems permanently located in Perth now with 3 kids, wife, house in suburb so truck needs to find a new home out of my shed on Gold Coast.

[John Mackie]

Most Fords in this era had chassis numbers stamped on the top flange of the chassis near the right hand front egine mount. It may be BB18F xxxxx , 2Gxxxx or 3Gxxxx Prefix. I have 5 and they all have chassis numbers.

[ccooperaus]

Thanks John.

Will investigate the chassis # on rt hand rail.

I am intrigued by the stamping on the firewall 11 T 81 then underneath 6269. I noticed both your Fords are 11 T.

The T is made up by a 1 with another 1 stamped horizontally on top. Well it looks like the two 1s are meant to make a T. Wonder what body it had on it.

Cheers, Charlie

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by ccooperaus

Thanks John.

Will investigate the chassis # on rt hand rail.

I am intrigued by the stamping on the firewall 11 T 81 then underneath 6269. I noticed both your Fords are 11 T.

The T is made up by a 1 with another 1 stamped horizontally on top. Well it looks like the two 1s are meant to make a T. Wonder what body it had on it.

Cheers, Charlie

11T 81 is the model number of the basic truck chassis; 1941 Year Model (ie '40-'41 build), 134"wb Truck with model 81 engine (1938 pattern 221ci, 85hp).

6269 is the body number of the cab.

[ccooperaus]

Thanks Tony
Truck ID now known
What I hadn't twigged to was the T made up of 1 vertical and 1 horizontal on top till my son, Tom, suggested it.
Thanks again Charlie

[ccooperaus]

Hello again Tony

# on gbox seems to be BB18F6673xxx
and #s on engine &AV2Rx7xx& and N or(W or V)59xx7xP
The engine came from same source but not same truck as far as I know.

Cheers, Charlie

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by ccooperaus

Hello again Tony
Truck ID now known

# on gbox seems to be BB18F6673xxx
and #s on engine &AV2Rx7xx& and N or(W or V)59xx7xP
The engine came from same source but not same truck as far as I know.

Cheers, Charlie

See my statement in Post #7 above. The engine is a dealership-supplied reco engine and could well be from this truck, the original being long gone and traded in for the reco.

If you can read more of the bellhousing number, we might be able to ID the the truck's ARN, and what variant the truck was.

I read the serial number on the rebuild tag to be AV2R6782. Does the other number, N or(W or V)59xx7xP, appear to be poorly hand stamped, or factory? A photo would be good, I suspect it will be crudely hand stamped, and will tell you why.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by ccooperaus

Son seems permanently located in Perth now with 3 kids, wife, house in suburb so truck needs to find a new home out of my shed on Gold Coast.

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[ccooperaus]

Thank you Tony, John and Mike

Truck gearbox #s are BB18-F6673863

Motor #s are AV 2R6782 and sloppy stamped N592377P

Another gearbox has #s BB18-F6923255 and is out of a Ford Marmon Herrington

Interested in army numbers of both Ford and Marmon

Cheers and thanks again for all the information

Charlie