Today 75 years ago,
my F15A rolled off the production line in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
I made a "then & now" picture using one of the pictures taken during the celebration of the production of Canada's 500,000th military vehicle in June 1943. Although the picture was taken in Oshawa, the vehicle itself is a Ford F60L battery charger lorry which was "completed recently". So the F60L in the picture was manufactured a few months after my F15A which was built "JAN. 13 - 43" as a F15441-M-PERS-3 under Contract CD 1513.
Me, the kids and two of their friends took it for a birthday celebration ride through our town. We stopped by at the (now defunct) Den Hartogh Ford Museum, where they have a T-Ford (as it was called here), the grandfather of all Fords, on display on a pole.
I have owned this Ford since 2001, and I thank the previous owners for taking such good care of it. Previous owners were the 1st Canadian Army, a British farmer (who reportedly had bought it at a Ruddington auction in 1949), a Mr. Sidney Bolton (who bought it off the farmer in the 1960's), Alan Levell who bought it in 1989 and then restored it.
Hanno