52-3 ford truck is this a half year truck

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01-04-2016, 04:59 PM

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Thanks everyone, I am learning a lot. 20 years ago I took the truck apart and had to replace the frame. Everything was sandblasted inside and out before putting it back together

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01-04-2016, 08:21 PM

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old truck is in solid condition! impressive

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01-05-2016, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ALBUQ F-1

'52 production of "light vehicles" is shown in the Bunn book to be 124,819. There were 16 plants so that's only 7800 trucks per plant if distributed equally (I'm sure that wasn't the case). If you assume F-1/2/3 production was 75% of total production, that's pretty close to the 9532. Lots of assumptions, but I'd be really surprised if this truck was built in Dec '51.

Did some plants only produce light trucks, or only medium/heavy trucks? I've noticed not many Louisville F-1's on here, I wonder if it was purely a HD plant back then?

Not that my database is an accurate measurement of production numbers, but of the 60 1951/1952 trucks this is only the third Chester truck.

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01-05-2016, 03:02 PM

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Not that my database is an accurate measurement of production numbers, but of the 60 1951/1952 trucks this is only the third Chester truck.

If you assume most of the CS trucks stayed pretty close to the plant, they've likely all turned to iron oxide. Then again, my truck was made in Memphis, certainly not the closest plant.

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