1938 Ford Standard Coupe

[Model51]

From first hand experience using copies of Ford's official production records titled Assembly Record Types (ART) for 1935 and 1936, it's easy to understand why there are variances in production numbers. Here's a couple of the leading reasons:
1. The print quality of copies of the records range from perfectly legible to illegible. It's easy to start guessing and what a number is, but it is a good way to introduce errors.
2. The records are not always complete. Some sheets are missing parts making a full accounting impossible.
3. Production year and calendar year do not always coincide. For example, domestic 1935 production began in November 1934 and ended in early October 1935. So, does the number of vehicles produced for 1935 align with the January to December 1935 dates or November 1934 to October 1935? Hopefully the latter. Production for 1936 covers 13 months in the USA. There's room for interpretation and confusion.
4. Worldwide production schedules do not necessarily align with domestic production. Sometimes foreign production started 3 to 6 months after production began in the USA. Occasionally production of vehicle types continued in foreign assembly plants for several years beyond the close of domestic production. Again, there's a lot of room for making some assumptions or taking shortcuts.
It took me months of tedious accounting research to tease out the production numbers just for 1935 and 1936 Trucks and even then, data was missing, not readable and incomplete. I did the best of my abilities and put as many caveats in my book on these trucks and only included production numbers I can verify with certainty. I'm hoping the Ford Archives eventually reopens and better records than what I reviewed exist. If not, then the uncertainty will remain.