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Production numbers and models of Ford Dagenham ww2 military vehicles?


Stableboy

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Can any kind person help with the above info please?

I did find something on t'net but cannot locate it since; besides someone is bound to have more comprehensive info here. hopefully.

 

Presumably models included (at least) -

WOT trucks/lorries of various models and sizes (eg iirc WOT6 =26500; WOT8 2500. ish)

Carriers

Tractors

V8 engines

 

looking for model types and quantities produced 1939 - 45.

any further detail welcomed too!!

Thanks

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Lots of information in a 1946 book called 'Ford at War' which was produced by Ford UK for distribution to Employees and Agents. It does crop up for sale sometimes - try ebay or Google it in second hand books.

 

Production of Ford WOT2 was 56,616. WOT2 chassis made by GKN, bodies by Briggs.

 

Ford don't have any records of their Wartime production. It's only enthusiasts who have anything, but Motor museum Beaulieu do have some info. Are you just interested in Dagenham production?

 

Robert Davey

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Many thanks for the details so far - fascinating, and not just from a vehicle point of view!

 

looks like another night with no sleep - i'll have to trawl the net again to find the original info i found -gave list of models and quantities, which is what i want (god knows where my saved document went..) - iirc it looked like a page scanned onto the website so not findable from just a direct search..

 

Ford at War - the booklet with the hand drawn image on the front of WOTs, tractors at Dagenham loading pier, is that the one - am keeping an eye out for that.

I have a 1945 hardback 'British War Production 1939-1945 A Record Complied by the Times, London' which gives all kinds of info.......but not a Ford vehicle production breakdown, which is what i need...

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found it - yippee

 

 

Ford Dagenham vehicle production -

Source: PEP, Report on the Motor Industry (London: HMSO, 1950)

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Model Total quantity produced

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Anglia 5,136

Prefect 14,281

61 Model 212

5/7 cwt. Van 2,882

10 cwt. Van 15,516

15 cwt. Van 375

25 cwt. Van 2,375

2/5 Ton Normal Control Truck 4,525

2/5 Ton Forward Control Truck 29,188

Fordson Tractor 134,474

Major Tractor 786

WOA-1 Utility Car 1,623

WOA-2 Utility Car 9,059

WOC1 15 cwt. Truck 2,001

WOT-1 6 Wheeler Survey Truck 9,154

WOT-2 15 cwt. Truck 59,498

WOT-3 30 cwt. Truck 17,966

WOT-6 3 Ton Truck 29,693

WOT-8 30 cwt. Truck 2,516

AOP Carrier 4,576

Lyod Carrier (sic) Loyd Carrier 4,213

Universal Carrier 5,153

 

 

and i bet you that it won't tally with info from other sources...................

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