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Old 10-18-2012, 12:38 PM   #7
Marco Tahtaras
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Default Re: '31 Murray Body Number Plates

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Originally Posted by Tudortomnz View Post
If your car was built at Toronto & has ''T ......'' stamped into the floor wood, it was not therefore built by Murray in the US, & would not have a Murray #.
These straight windsheild sedans were sometimes built in ''foreign'' plants eg. Geelong ,Australia & Manchester England.
The ones sent to New Zealand & Sth Africa were stamped ''3F/5F'' [stylised F] in 1930 '31 & were assembled at the main Ontario Plant [ Ford, Ontario], Canada.
Ok, I'm confused again. With the exception of the Leather back, all straight windshield Fordor models produced in Canada were with Murray built bodies from the USA. By contrast the slant windshield bodies were redesigned to be assembled from sub-assemblies that could come from multiple sources. The couple Canadian S/W bodies I've studied were clearly imported from the USA in sections and assembled in Canada. These obviously would have no body tags like many of those produced and sold here in the USA.

That takes us back to the Murray body tags. Were there actually some straight windshield Murray bodies delivered without body tags? If so, were there holes for such a tag present in the firewall?
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