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john charlton · 04-03-2011, 03:25 AM

In England far more commercial vehicles were built with the "chassis cowl" .I suppose was cheaper than buying one with the steel cab . If you remove the body you will find it is a modified roadster cowl even has the slots to take the roadster door hinges also the "reveal" that the vertical front end of the roadster door would shut into .This meant that the wood body front edge had to be fitted over the reveal also the pressed steel cowl cap which runs over the gas tank top. This was just cosmetic to avoid the step in the cowl sides being visible. The down side is that the rear portion of this panel gets rotted out under the wood across the lower windscreen area. This is a pain as these panels are virtually unobtainable so love the one you have got !!! When the indented cowl came out a purpose made cowl was made it had no reveal and no hinge holes. Ford plant at Dagenham built A and AA commercial vehicles into 1936 all of these had that late cowl.

John in partly cloudy warm morning England.

04-03-2011, 03:25 AM	#16
john charlton Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,304	Re: Ill bet you havent seen one of these.... In England far more commercial vehicles were built with the "chassis cowl" .I suppose was cheaper than buying one with the steel cab . If you remove the body you will find it is a modified roadster cowl even has the slots to take the roadster door hinges also the "reveal" that the vertical front end of the roadster door would shut into .This meant that the wood body front edge had to be fitted over the reveal also the pressed steel cowl cap which runs over the gas tank top. This was just cosmetic to avoid the step in the cowl sides being visible. The down side is that the rear portion of this panel gets rotted out under the wood across the lower windscreen area. This is a pain as these panels are virtually unobtainable so love the one you have got !!! When the indented cowl came out a purpose made cowl was made it had no reveal and no hinge holes. Ford plant at Dagenham built A and AA commercial vehicles into 1936 all of these had that late cowl. John in partly cloudy warm morning England.