It would have been used as a grain truck. There would have been wood along the back as well and a sliding gate over that hole in the tailgate. Unless removed the farmer would have also had a PTO driven hydraulic dump installed to tilt the box up to dump the grain. My 1950 F68 came configured the same way.

 

so .. 2 acres for a load..an' 640 to a section so 320 runs to clear a field....that's a lot of driving !!..an I gotta ask the "not a 47" F-1 is what year??

 

That grille was used from 48-50...

Ford F-series truck field guide, 1948-96+ | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This is an example of the 46/47 grille...

1947 Ford Pickup | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

And if anyone ever tells you they have/seen a 1943-1945 Ford truck, or any truck for that matter, kick them. Ford stopped civillian production during WW2, resuming again in the summer of 1945 with the 1946 models.

 

I dunno where you dug up this wild mule p!ss, looks to me like the crap info one finds on wiki wiki.

Production of all US automaker Passenger Cars/Trucks were halted February 10th, 1942. The last 1942 FoMoCo vehicle off the line was a Mercury 'fordor' sedan.

Due to the fact that no trucks had been assembled for the civilian market since 2/10/1942, and new trucks were in desperate need, the War Production Board authorized US automakers to begin assembling trucks for the civilian market: October 1944.

It took months for automakers to begin new truck production. All the assembly plants had been converted over to war production...now had to be converted back to civilian production, so...

Only 20,904 1945 Ford trucks were assembled for the civilian market, 19,706 were 1/2 ton pickups. A 1945 1/2 ton pickup became the 31,000,000th Ford built.

And...because taxi's were in such short supply, in 1943, the War Production Board authorized Nash-Kelvinator to assemble 10,000.

The 1944-1952 Ford Truck & Passenger Car Body Parts Catalog has been reproduced by faxonautolit.com.

 

So I was partially right lol

Thanks for the further (and more accurate) clarification.

 

I wouldn't argue with Bill about history and numbers either. Only in maybe a couple hundred years, would I gather the knowledge he's always sharing with all of us.