T-16 Vehicle Identification / History

[Rod Stout]

I too have purchased a Rod Shaver T16. It appears we have chosen new careers. Mine is nearing mechanical completion including new transmission, brakes, bogie seals & bearings, new front spindles pressed into brackets, engine access panels, paint and the list keeps growing. Hope to have it running by march. While the exterior may be canadian, interior will be Swiss until I can get information on tooll boxs, their mounts, gun mounts etc. I have no idea how to restore the rear interior. My next delima is acquiring solid bogies and recasting the rubber tires with urethane. Do any of the members have experience or information reguarding this repair?

Rod Stout

[Hanno Spoelstra]

An update of this thread by quoting from an earlier thread Wartime T16 pictures (which has gone missing due to a database glitch). Corrected the information and added a page from the book Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II by Charles K. Hyde. This gives some insight in the build rate of T16 built at Ford's Somerville plant near Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Ford Motor Co. built 13,893 T16 from 1943 through 1945:

• S/N 1 through 1000 = USA 40113055 through 40114054 ("Prefix FS assigned to serial numbers 1 thru 1000.")
• S/N 1001 through 6175 = British to assign number
• S/N 6176 through 9923 = USA 40138753 through 40142500
• S/N 9924 through 14443 = USA 40123864 through 40128383 (some apparently cancelled)

Also see the thread surviving T16s for pictures of data plates with serial numbers.

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