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    Ford with Amblewagon body.
     
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    http://www.trueblueford.com/discussion_new/viewtopic.php?t=2513&start=75

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    <CENTER>1948 Seibert-Bodied Ford Limousine</CENTER><BASEFONT><CENTER>Open-Front manufactured by Seibert Body Company</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER>http://my.net-link.net/~dcline/limocl14.htm</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER>[​IMG]</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER>DESCRIPTION
    • Manufacturer:
      • Chasis - Ford Motor Company.
      • Body - The Shops of Siebert. Beginning in 1933 Siebert entered into an exclusive agreement to use Ford chassis on all of their vehicles. Starting with a standard Ford V8 sedan delivery whose body was made by Budd, Siebert cut the vehicle in the middle of the B pillar, lengthened the frame by either 24" or 36"" then spliced in a second B-pillar to B-pillar door on each side of the vehicle.
    </CENTER><CENTER>http://www.vmt.org/Loops-Collections/Automobile-Loop/Ford Ambulance-Hearse - 1936.html</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER></BASEFONT>
     
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    OK - same car, but different (open) body
     

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    "How's this for a weirdo Ford? This original publicity shot is dated 1935, and was a reprint done by Ford of Britain in 1979. Bill Ballard's interesting book on sidevalves mentions this model, as does another book I have on Ford vans and pickups. It was built as a mechanical horse, in a similar vein to the Scammells that were popular with the railways. Briggs Motor Bodies, based near the Ford plant (and to be taken over by Fords in later years) built a number of these tug bodies, but only 111 are believed to have been built. A small number survive it seems. These would have been very manouevrable machines, although with a maximum speed of 18mph it wouldn't be a vehicle you'd want to travel far in."

    http://www.e83w.co.uk/sidevalve_misc.htm

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    http://www.fordyandcmodelregister.co.uk/Pages/AboutCars/ModelIdentification.html
     
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