Hello!!!

Dusty

Dusty

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Phone Truck, Ford? I don't recall seeing any like this.

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I'm glad to see that my pickup is not the onlu one to have a spart on the right side! Look like a specially built cab, but why?
 
JackA said:
I'm glad to see that my pickup is not the onlu one to have a spart on the right side! Look like a specially built cab, but why?
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Don't know, that's why I question what it was, maybe it was a phone company mod? almost looks bullet proof:)
 
Those type of cabs were sometimes built here for commercial chassis but also the most common & popular style here in NZ was the Open Cab, which the NZ Post Office & Telegraph also used.
I would think with a large fleet order a company could get a good deal on a cab designed exactly how they wanted ; they were also probably more roomy & had the side window. The Ford Budd ''Phone booth'' cab is quite pokey, & although most people were not fat in those days, they may have been tallish
 
Maybe the right hand spare is because there is a ladder rack on the left side? If I had to force my employees to get out on one side or the other I would put the ladder on the left and make them get out on the right. Then maybe here are two spares. With the quality of tires in that era two spares might be a good idea.

Charlie Stephens
 
That is a special built box on the back, so the body builder probably had a contract to build the cab as well .
When they put a ladder rack on a pickup it was often on the left side and the spare would be on the right.
That truck would get a lot of interest at a show today!!!!

John Cochran
 
It's an early '28 see the hood louvers and wheel hubs! plus no bulge in the splash shield against the rear fender. My '33 V8 has a right side mounted spare wheel.
 
I'm looking at this on my phone so may not be seeing everything but my guess is that the truck is foreign built and right hand drive. Would make sense with ladder on our driver's
side.
 
Definately American made, Bell Telephone was only in the US. It also does have the ladder rack on the left side. Probably the only place to mount a spare was on the right.
 
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