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Bill,
Columbia sold its axles directly to dealers who installed them post production. No where in Ford Motor Company's engineering records will you find a release form or drawing for them or a Ford part number and their absence from any Ford Motor Company parts catalogue is telling, unlike the Ford-authorized/released items. Without that documentation, these axles are no different than aftermarket mud flaps, as an extreme example, that dealers might install at customers' request. Conspicuous by its absence in your brochure is any reference to Ford Motor Company. Ford dealers were and remain separate independent corporate entities; they were/are not "company stores".