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Bruce Lancaster · 08-08-2012, 11:28 AM

I thought A engine production started in '30 or '31 in UK, but cannot remember my source...need more coffee, obviously!
Wehrmacht I think bought BB trucks of the general '32 type until 1940 (I think, from scanty information) and built B type engines upgraded in 1939 and 1942 into the '50's...their V8 trucks got updates to some 1942 specs but continued with a smattering of much earlier parts in circa 1940 type chassis.
From a picture caption from a book on Fords in German military in WWII I gleaned a REALLY damn obscure factoid: German BB's with curved headlight bar are '32s, ones built after '32 had straight bar but were still basically '32 BB's, not '33-4 type...
The truck shown was on its side in a ditch during an unfortunate vacation trip to Russia.

08-08-2012, 11:28 AM	#18
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: England, Australia, New Zealand Info Requested I thought A engine production started in '30 or '31 in UK, but cannot remember my source...need more coffee, obviously! Wehrmacht I think bought BB trucks of the general '32 type until 1940 (I think, from scanty information) and built B type engines upgraded in 1939 and 1942 into the '50's...their V8 trucks got updates to some 1942 specs but continued with a smattering of much earlier parts in circa 1940 type chassis. From a picture caption from a book on Fords in German military in WWII I gleaned a REALLY damn obscure factoid: German BB's with curved headlight bar are '32s, ones built after '32 had straight bar but were still basically '32 BB's, not '33-4 type... The truck shown was on its side in a ditch during an unfortunate vacation trip to Russia.