1930 Truck or Tudor door panel installation

[Double Trouble]

Can anyone tell me the purpose of the D shaped "clip" in the attached closeup of a model A pickup/tudor door?

Does it somehow retain the door panel? If so, how does it?

I've been wondering for years and now that I am at the point of installing door panels I would really like to know. I haven't come across any information about it try as I might.

 

[1955cj5]

I asked that same question several years ago.

I was told that the hook would have been used to secure some interior panels, but not those normally found on a CCPU.

Here is the link...

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=169164


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[Double Trouble]

Thanks for the help, I could see the hook being a T/TT cary over in 28/29 but why would they continue them into 30/31?
As the same door will fit Tudor's, I wonder if it might not be intended for them.
I have seen bulging door panels, a center attachment point might keep the panel from doing that maybe.

 

[J Franklin]

I would be tempted to cut a slot in my panel to fit that on installation.

 

[Double Trouble]

I am tempted to do just that, but I have not seen any restored examples of that "hook" protruding through the panel.

I wonder if there wasn't maybe a bracket on the back of the panel? If only someone had an original,Hmmmmm.

 

[Big hammer]

On my late 31 tudor, I think that there was a hole in the panel board and the door tab would catch the panel board. This securing the middle of the panel, like I said I think it’s been many years ago.

 

[Double Trouble]

Thanks for the responses, I think I'll try to cut a slot in the panel without going all the way through so that the hook is concealed behind the outer covering.