Canadian engine number
 

Can anyone tell me what the "P" designates in the Engine#??? C18"P"####

Re: Canadian engine number
 

Robert,


Ford of Canada did not use consecutive V8 engine numbering regardless of model year like Ford U.S. (18-1 on up), but rather used groups of up to 5,000 consecutive numbers with each group further identified by the addition of another capital letter to the prefix. That added letter was randomly selected and not in alphabetical order in any given model year. In the case of the P that you asked about, nine other lettered groups were used during the 1934 model year.

Re: Canadian engine number
 

Thank you very much David. Quite a different system.

Re: Canadian engine number
 

They numbered the fours in groups ass well. Canadian '32 Bs were numbered CBG-1 to 5000 and CBQ-1 to 3999.


The fours manufactured at the Dageham plant in the U.K. used numbers assigned in blocks from Dearborn from the continuous numbering system used by Ford U.S. (AB-500001 and up or with an ABB prefix with the A dropped from the prefix in both cases with engine number 62387 on April 25, 1932.