Ford Canada Conventional and Modified Vehicles

[David Dunlop]

Hanno.

Did any of those wartime production vehicles have data plates added inside to denote relevant manuals, or did they simply rely on the conventional prewar data plates under the hood or on the door frames, which usually did not reference manuals?

The fact that Ford Canada deemed it useful postwar to publish a series of manuals targeting the civil population, suggests these vehicles were far more common than we think in civilian use. Publication probably targeted the commercial dealership network that would not have seen anything new coming through their doors for six years and with enough changes visible to leave them scratching their heads.

Smart idea on Ford’s part really. And now that I think of it, were any commercial manuals every published in Holland after the war covering any of the ex military vehicles that were in commercial use?

David