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The block had one frost (core) plug at the rear on each side, just below the heads, the heads had the firing order cast in, the crankshaft had a long snout, allowing for the fitting of double pulley fan belts for trucks, and big end bearings were flanged 1/4 shells (4 per journal).
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FWIW 15+ years ago I bought a core engine that had those heads on it. It didn't have any of the characteristics listed above, it was otherwise a standard 37-38 engine, core plugs on the pan rail, std. crank nose. Of course there was no way to know if they were added later but the rest of the engine appeared to be untouched from new, std. bearings and bores, etc.
I was curious about the heads and asked everyone I knew who had dealt with old Fords, only answer I got was that engines with those heads came from Joblot as new war surplus.