- #TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#
- #TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
- #TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS REGISTRATION#
- #TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS LICENSE#
- #TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIES#
#TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS#
(Additional note: frame serial numbers were typically not stamped on Canadian-built Model A's). Additionally, it is usually difficult or impossible to read the frame number due to frame corrosion and pitting from the moisture held by the cotton frame webbing. The number cannot be inspected without removal of sheet metal and lifting of the body off the frame because the frame number was covered with the splash apron and body.
Engines also were not used in vehicle final assembly in the same sequence that the engine itself was produced or numbered.Īt the time of vehicle final assembly, the pre-existing engine number was also usually stamped on the vehicle frame in one or more locations (top of LH frame rail near the Number One body bolt). The vehicle was sometimes assembled up to 3 months after the engine was assembled, tested, and numbered.
#TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
The engine serial number only dates the final approval of the assembled run-in engine, not the casting dates of the engine components, not the actual assembly date of the engine components, and not the assembly date of the vehicle.
#TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS SERIES#
Ford Canada used serial number series of their own creation and control. Model A engines with serial number prefix CA, CAA, CAW, CAAW, CAE, CAAE, CAR, CAAR, CAT, CAAT, CAY, CAAY, CAU, CAAU, CAI, CAAI, CAO, CAAO, CAP, CAAP, CAS, CAAS, CAD, and CAAD, and Model B engines with serial number prefix CBG and CBQ were built and stamped at Ford of Canada in East Windsor (Ford City), Ontario. Some Model B engines having an AA prefix and Rouge group serial numbers were also built and stamped at Dagenham in 19 and were used in Model AA trucks having factory Model B engines.
These engines variously carried serial number prefixes A, AF, AA, B, BF, and BB, however with distinctly identifiable numeric serial numbers based on place of manufacture.īoth Dagenham and Köln used serial numbers assigned from groups of numbers granted by the Rouge from within the larger sequence of Rouge numbers. Model A and B engines were also produced by Ford at Dagenham, England, at Cork, Ireland, and at Köln, Germany. Model A and B engines were also built worldwide, including at Windsor, Canada, at Manchester and later Dagenham, England, at Köln, Germany, and at Gorky Automobile Zavod "ГАЗ" (GAZ), USSR from the 1930's through 1950's. Some engines produced at the Rouge for export also carried the marking "Ford U.S.A." stamped on the pad below the serial number, as illustrated in the pic above. Most Model A Ford engines found in North and South America with serial number prefixes A, AA, AF, or AAF, and Model B Ford engines with serial number prefixes AB, AAB, B, or BB were built at the Ford Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The prefix is preceded by a ☆ character, and the numeric serial number is followed by a ☆ character, as shown in the pic above. The numeric serial number is unique and is not directly correlated to the prefix letter(s). The engine serial number is separate from the alpha prefix letter(s). This is true throughout the Ford Model A and B US and Canadian production era.
#TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS REGISTRATION#
The engine number, not a frame number, was the original serial number of the vehicle for title and registration purposes. Any number present is frequently obscured or illegible due to corrosion and pitting from moisture held by the cotton frame webbing between the frame and body. In the 1930's, vehicle theft was actually quite a large problem.Ī check for a possible frame number requires removal of the body and fender splash aprons from the frame. The engine number was assigned and stamped at the Rouge and was usually, but not always, later stamped on the top of the frame flange at the vehicle assembly plant as a backup to aid in positive identification of stolen vehicles. When present, the frame number was a duplicate of the original engine number of that chassis. There is no Ford literature available indicating a frame number was ever intended for any primary identification of a vehicle by Ford. A great many did not have a frame number stamped, and it varied depending on when and which of the more than two dozen assembly plants completed the vehicle final assembly. Actually, not all Model A vehicles even had a frame number. It is popularly but incorrectly claimed that the serial number of the vehicle was a frame number.
#TOYOTA ENGINE BLOCK CASTING NUMBERS LICENSE#
The Specifications and License Data page above in the Instruction Book is quite clear and specific about this. Model A Vehicle Serial Number and LocationĪs shown above in the 1928 Model A Ford Instruction Book, Ford did in fact specify the engine number to be the 'serial number' of the vehicle, during the Model A (and B) era, and throughout the 1930's.
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