Its a Ford WOT 6 or 8 ??

[Dusonn]

Hi Peter,

good spot, this would be true as the early engine cowling is clearly seen on the picture from remowing the WOT6 top roof. This means the whole early dash set-up would be the same as on WOT8. But looking at the picture you can see that the scoop front vents are introduced already whilst the engine cowling it still old style. I guess on the turn in production there would be lots of mysteries like this. They would use whatever was left on stock before introduction of the new type.

Thinking of it again, it is very strange that the later WOT8s were mounted with the scoop style vents but on your picture of the NZ army truck iwhich is obviously WOT6, it still has the early round type vents. Does not make much sense to me at the moment .

[David Herbert]

Peter,
Your reference to the engine cowling change refers to the engine cover inside the cab, not to the front panel of the cab itself as you seem to suggest in post #20.

David

[Peter Mossong]

Originally Posted by David Herbert

Peter,
Your reference to the engine cowling change refers to the engine cover inside the cab, not to the front panel of the cab itself as you seem to suggest in post #20.

David

Hi David. Yes, in re-reading the manual again that makes sense.

Another item of note, the early GS bodies appear to be wooden with metal framing and the later bodies were metal sided with what appears to be wooden metal framed front and tailgate. More coming to light!

Cheers,
Pete M.

[Dusonn]

[QUOTE=Another item of note, the early GS bodies appear to be wooden with metal framing and the later bodies were metal sided with what appears to be wooden metal framed front and tailgate. More coming to light!
Cheers,
Pete M.[/QUOTE]

Pete, I think this is not a principle as I have an early WOT8 with round vents which had a metal sided body with wooden tailgate, same as the last surviving WOT8 in the UK which has the scoop air vents. You can see late WOT6s with both wooden and metal bodies. The workshop trucks had wooden body. In my quess there were more producers of the GS bodies.