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The new Ford Plant at Geelong in Victoria ,set up 1925, was a manufacturing & assembly plant. In that era, most govt.s had a floating scale of what was imported & local sourced items. Basically, in Model A era & up to 1935, Ford Aust. imported chassis, running gear plus fenders etc but body...

I have seen pics of French V8 60 sedan [Model 62?] produced with rear door like that, version of Dagenham model. I would try & contact a big Euro Model A group eg. Denmark & see if they know of any. Model A's move around a lot between countries. Ford Germany did some Tudors with door same as...

How was it dated to April? It would need a paper title as registered in that month in my opinion.

For the 1930-31's, the rear seat was shortened by approx. 2" to give the impression that more area was provided than the previous Tudors. Ford actually stated the New Tudor was roomier than the previous model! Glad you got it sorted out.

Very interesting to hear of your A's John. Probably Argentina received the most Deluxe Phaetons , they were a wealthy market pre War [ they were a huge primary product supplier to Gt Britain] until Peron stuffed it up. I have seen a very nice '31 Deluxe Phaeton RHD ex Argentina here in NZ...

No. I have an original rear mat in my Tudor& it lies flat & is located by brass studs on the metal floor railings. You would have to probably punch holes in the repro mat. The front edge of the mat goes under the rear seat feet of the front seats.

All the Canadian chassis here in NZ, & I believe all made in Canada were drilled for both LHD & RHD until sometime in late '30 when they were only for RHD or LHD depending on destination. I would suspect [ an easy enough check] it was the same with Ford Detroit. Ford US supplied large shipments...

At 60mph, I would say everything would be rattling. Too fast, even if modified!

As others have noted, front windshield frame to body & door glass area & also I get squeaks from the metal floor plate around gear lever & hand brake.

Try & get a look at '" Ford Model A as Henry Built It " by DeAngelis, Francis & Henry which has factory photos of the pleats on roadster seats. Also there is a good Factory photo of an interior of a '30 in Restorer Vol. 19,issue 1, May-June 1974. The seats have creases & misalignments from new.

Worldwide Employee Badges, ID Cards, Passes & Permits book by James Krucki is now the reference for this subject. No need for wrong facts by non experts, nearly every Ford badge ever made is covered by an expert [s].

In the day, image was built up by printing separate colours [ also gold & silver] & black using separate letterpress printing plates. Printed on 'transfer 'paper with top sealed layer. As Ed stated above. If you photo your existing 'decal' transfer, you can get modern type decal paper to copy it...

The fender lamps really look sharp, but I have never seen any on a car. Other than the UK which required them as John has said, the big market that used them was Argentina which may be a source. But because fenders were subject to damage, I would presume any fender lamps would be hard to find...

That is a re stamp, not a Ford Canada engine number. All engines stamped CA ...... up to 150,000 which was end of Aug. '29. From then on CAQ; CAW;CAE etc ending in CAD in Feb '32. These 3 digit blocks were in 10,000 batches. No blocks were stamped with an F [ as in CAF] but some US blocks for...

The '23 Tudor my friend has is fitted with the distributor conversion. This , I believe , is from an old VW Beetle. What do you guys with a dist. set the points gap at?