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Bruce Lancaster · 08-07-2012, 02:02 PM

Not exactly my question...I know about the AF engine (pretty sure Germany made no fours until later when all were B's and B developments), just want to see how Ford England (which did supply a lot to Ford Germany until they became essentially a self sufficient factory in middle thirties) stamped the serials. Did the put "A" alone at the beginning of big engine serial stamps or "AF", 200.5 engines. Either would seem logical to me as they used US supplied engines for most A production until '31 or so, so would they have been AF because they were Rouge units built up as RHD or stamped A because they were to be sold from England as normal for domestic use?
Kind of two interpretations of Ford Grammar...
And of course Ford england was presumably putting a few of both engine sizes into LHD markets on the continent...
I did some roaming in English and continental junkyards looong ago when there were still some feral old Fords in Europe and have run into this stuff in the wild (and also the fabled '35-6 4 main 60!), but in those days I had no interest in serials and of course a big or small engine could be identified visually.

08-07-2012, 02:02 PM	#17
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: England, Australia, New Zealand Info Requested Not exactly my question...I know about the AF engine (pretty sure Germany made no fours until later when all were B's and B developments), just want to see how Ford England (which did supply a lot to Ford Germany until they became essentially a self sufficient factory in middle thirties) stamped the serials. Did the put "A" alone at the beginning of big engine serial stamps or "AF", 200.5 engines. Either would seem logical to me as they used US supplied engines for most A production until '31 or so, so would they have been AF because they were Rouge units built up as RHD or stamped A because they were to be sold from England as normal for domestic use? Kind of two interpretations of Ford Grammar... And of course Ford england was presumably putting a few of both engine sizes into LHD markets on the continent... I did some roaming in English and continental junkyards looong ago when there were still some feral old Fords in Europe and have run into this stuff in the wild (and also the fabled '35-6 4 main 60!), but in those days I had no interest in serials and of course a big or small engine could be identified visually.