Mystery part.....

[Bob Carriere]

... at least it's a mystery to me.....

Appears in both a cab 13 with no hatch and a cab 11 Ford.....

Looks like a finger hold to match the Geez handle on the floor.....

Any idea what it was for.....?

Bob C.

[rob love]

Your photos aren't the clearest Bob, but usually the post-service turn signal lever arm arrangement mounted in that vicinity. That kind of looks like the bracket the lever mounted to.

[Bob Carriere]

... they were enlargements...cropped and resized....

But you are correct....... weird contraption but no doubt a post was civvy adaptation...... made necessary by cold Canadian Winter which resulted in plywood framed side door windows that did not open.... hand signals were impossible.

I would like to say these trucks are behind my barn but that is not so......

Bob

[rob love]

It wasn't the plywood windows that were the problem, it was that the hand signals would be coming from the left side window, while the rest of the modern civilized world was using the right window. When I was posted to Saskatchewan, the older club members told me it was regulation that the left hand drive vehicles were equipped with the signal flap off the right side. It was controlled by a roof mounted lever mounted to brackets similar to what you have shown.