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Old 12-04-2020, 02:33 PM   #13
rotorwrench
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Default Re: Ford A Tudor year built

Ford plants in the USA didn't have tags like that one on the body. You are fortunate that you have one that does and that it matches the motor. The motor number was what was stamped onto the frame when it was mated with one here in the USA. Motor numbers were controlled by the Dearborn Michigan home of the Rouge Ford main plant where most of the engines were produced. Ford of Canada is the only other manufacturer that produced engines & had its own numbering system and it had unique prefix letters beginning CA. Ford vehicles produced outside the USA were generally knock down assemblies crated for shipment with final assembly performed by plants set up in specific countries like France in the model A era. Canada supplied some of the Commonwealth countries but not all. It was later on in the 30s before the Ford SAF manufacturing picked up and the Koln plant in Germany.

The registration papers may have been more of an application for import licence which would have started in late 1927 or early 1928 on a blanket sale of model A vehicles to France. It looks to be a 1930 by design and the numbers seem to confirm that. I wouldn't worry so much what the paperwork gives for a year model as long as it can be registered for legality of ownership. It looks to be in pretty good condition.

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