1941 Fordson WOT 2H truck. After 10 years

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

I am not too hot on Ford WOT2's but they had suffix letters if I recall something like WOT2H (Office body) etc, with each letter being a particular type, open back, with tilt, van, light warning, etc. There are several contracts of WOT2 Vans on the list.

Richard,


The suffix letters denoted the following:

• WOT2A had individual windowscreens at an angle, wooden body, no tilt and vertical radiator grill
• WOT2B had individual screens at an angle, a van body and mesh radiator grill
• WOT2C individual but horizontal screens, wood body, no tilt.
• WOT2D individual but horizontal screens, van body.
• WOT2E full width windscreen, wood with tilt
• WOT2F full width windscreen, steel body, no tilt
• WOT2H full width windscreen wood or steel body with tilt

(I glanced this off various sources on the internet, so I'm not sure if I got it all correct.)

A Van body was in some cases (like CMP trucks) nothing more than the GS body wih a canvas tilt, in other cases such as the Bedford pictured below it was a permanent canvas covered supertructure on a modified GS body (longer and with no foldable sides, for instance).

Hanno