Ford Wreck in the Desert (2)

[cliff]

Originally posted by ericnuyt
The RAAF Ford pic is interesting, but the problem with the Ford E018T is that it was a US Ford assembled in Britain with lhd. Our desert wreck is rhd!
The same Vanderveen book mentions a rhd Australian Ford 01T on page 214, which must be the truck on the picture Cliff provided and not the E018T...

You must have an earlier version of the book and not the revised addition like mine as page 214 has a line up of the different CMP type vehicles produced by Canada.

The RAAF truck was probably supplied by the British as most AIF vehicles in North Africa were supplied from British Forces Stocks and 'sold' to Australia later so is more likely to be one of the vehicles pictured in Barts book as per the scan I have already posted.

As Ford USA also made Right Hand Drive vehicles for export and I can find no reference to the pictured Ford E018T assembled in England being Left Hand Drive it could in fact be RHD and the same as the pictured Desert Wreck. Ford Canada could be the maker of the RHD desert wreck but I am unsure if they did make the flat cowl export model or not.

The main thing to remember though, is that the desert wreck is a flat cowl model with no signs of door hinge attachment points on the front door pillars so will be one of the export models sold arround the world at that time with RHD versions going to some countries and LHD to others. Cabs and bodies would have been built locally in whatever country the vehicle was shipped to.