Ford Model B Serial Numbers
Dreamcast iso torrent. This is the information that I have gathered over the years on Model A serial numbers (now used as VIN's). Stamped only in one place and it was matched the engine number, which was stamped when the engine was built (not as it was going down the assembly line, sometimes the engine sat for months before being installed in a car.) I have owned Three Model A's and all of them only had one number in the frame. Sometimes you will find one with no number as the guy on the assembly line got behind and just skipped one. This is very rare for Model A's, but common on T's,Ford also stamped numbers in the body itself, but this was just an assembly number indicating what plant is was made at and the body style. These are stamped in the horizontal floor front body crossmember and the body side rails.
Model A Frame Serial Number
Some Fordoors and Cabriolets had them in the Wooden body cross member as well. Briggs and Murray did a tag that could be on the firewall or the body crossmember. Again these are not serial numbers but only body ID tags as to where they were built and what type.The AR, LB etc are not frame or motor serial numbers but the body number.
The Ford Motor Co. Assigned letters of the alphabet for all models beginning in 1903. Thus the first model by The Ford Motor Co. Became the Model A and the new improved models assigned Model AC, B and C. Total 1904 Ford production was 1,695 units. 1 LETTERS, NUMBERS AND CODES FOR MODEL A/AA FORD PRODUCTION 1928-1931 BY STEVE PLUCKER (As of July 26, 2011) So many times we are asked “How and where do I find the engine/frame number.
Those have been stamped to other places over the years but from what I can tell FORD never did them that way. Hey,I copied the following off the Hamb (or perhaps Ford Barn)the thread was called:Model A title??? How many numbers dose yours have???and here is the info I saved:1928.1-8.810,123-2,7.2,742,696-4,2.4,237,501-4,849,340Go to the MARC site for a list correlating A numbers with dates. These are pure serial numbers, based on the order in which engines were built.so A-3 would be a valid serial number and so would A-4,000,003. Numbering series actually outlasted the cars.complete numbered engines were made into 1942 for industrial uses. Engines were numbered when they passed inspection, then they were shipped to the assembly plants and engine number was stamped on the car's chassis when it got the engine on the line. Four banger numbers from 5,000,000 up are Model B's.Agsin, not my info, but I saved it and thought you might get some benefit from it.Good luck,Greg.
From what I have heard, LB### is an engine number put onto rebuilds to identify them as from Long Beach authorized rebuilding plant. Look at yours closely: Is the serial pad milled? If so, it had its serial ground off (very common practice by rebuilders) and the new number added so the engine could be identified if it had warranty problems that rebuilder could be responsible for.A Ford number was stamped on the pad in as-cast condition.You will also find milled pads with normal Ford serials stamped.those were again rebuilds, restamped to match car's original number like the frame. That would be illegal nowadays.An as-cast pad with nothing on it would likely be a replacement block. Only complete and run tested engines got serials.Canadian stuff: The engine got the ONLY number, I believe, with nothing on the frame.and Canadian serials were different than US because the engines were actually made in Canada, not the Rouge.
British also made A and B engines after 1921, but used USA series numbers assigned to them from the same series as Rouge numbers.