Ford Jailbar front bumper

[rob love]

The above truck now resides in my line-up along with another for parts.

We have the identical dump box (although extended post-service) on a right hand drive Dodge in the museum here in Shilo.

[Jans Haveman]

atatched 2 pictures.

The green truck is mine. As the bumper was missing I made a (bad) copy.

The red truck shows an original square bumper.

Kind regards,

Jans

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[Alex van de Wetering]

That's a lovely truck, Jans.

As the bumper was missing I made a (bad) copy.

Why do you say "bad"....size and shape seems correct, only the extra holes seem missin(?). Did you manage to find the correct bumper profile here in Holland?

Alex

[Jans Haveman]

Thanks,

I bought an Inch size in the US.
For free I got some space in a container transport.
I did not yet copy the hole pattern and the lenght is not correct.

Theo Castricum from Winkel told me, these Jailbar Fords were originally built for the North Africa operations from the Allies.
But that was in '42. The after war Canadian Fords have serial numbers starting with 5g....... That must be a year '45. ( starting july "44)
But were they built for military purposes??

Jans

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jans Haveman

Theo Castricum from Winkel told me, these Jailbar Fords were originally built for the North Africa operations from the Allies.
But that was in '42. The after war Canadian Fords have serial numbers starting with 5g....... That must be a year '45. ( starting july "44)
But were they built for military purposes??

Jens, like stated above, this type of truck was built as a Military Conventional Pattern truck:

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

These were basically civilian trucks with some military features like the push bar, military lighting and of course military paint. See the thread Ford 3 ton MCP dump truck for a nice example.

They were used by the armed forces in many theatres of war, and production continued after WW2 for civilian use.

[Jans Haveman]

Thanks all of you.
My questions are solved now.
I will use this information for my site www.dutch-ford-jailbar-register.simpsite.nl

Jans