Transfer Case ID?

[Geof.Fowler]

Thanks for all the good replies. Please keep them coming!

I had searched this site previously, but hadn’t yet found the links folks have included here. I look forward to reading all of that, as time allows. I just don’t want anyone thinking I’m not willing to do the work to investigate.

The GTB transfer case also looks very similar. I hadn’t see that one yet.

I also hadn’t seen the one with the extra oil capacity. Very cool!

Much of this makes me wonder if Ford and possibly others licensed the design from Timken, but manufactured it themselves. For example, I know IH manufactured multiple axles that were designs licensed by Eaton. They did this for decades.

Interestingly, Timken actually licensed the design from Alma Motor Company and there was a court case in the mid-40’s.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinio...troit-axle-co/

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Geof.Fowler

Interestingly, Timken actually licensed the design from Alma Motor Company and there was a court case in the mid-40’s.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinio...troit-axle-co/

I have only just begun to read the court case, and it is quite a read.

One point that stands out is: "The motion was predicated on an affidavit that Timken had manufactured transfer cases for the United States alone,..."

As stated regarding GM USA/McKinnons, and Ford/Ford Canada, there were a number of Canadian companies that were either sister companies or independant subsidiaries that engaged in Canadian manufacture of US designs for the Bristish Empire market.

Timken has lodged an affidavit that they only manufactured transfer cases for the United States. Perhaps a Subsidiary or licensee of Timken in Canada had manufactured the T32 within Canada, and with Timken being aware on the need to pay Alma royalties in 1940-41 (ie Pre-War in US terms and before the passing of the Royalty Adjustment Act), ensured that the Canadian production did not make use of the term "T32" to avoid triggering royalty payments to Alma on production of the CMP Transfer cases, which by then were being made in Canada in quantities far greater than any Pre-War US numbers.