Open Drive-Away's: Chassis & Cowl -&- Cowl & Windshield = correct FoMoCo terminology / See post #11.

 

The 2 that are red has the flatbeds, beds and sides were painted body color, but the white f2 f3 doesn't.... I wounder if you could have ordered it different ways?

 

very cool photo.

wally

1951 F1 - "Lucille"

 

Moe, I stared at that yeller one for a while and I have a different take.... Tell me if my suggestion doesn't make as much sense... from right to left (backwards of normal reading direction)
car
green - can't tell what bed
red stakeside
yellow Open Drive-Away (to me too short for a bus, but suppose F3 buses existed)
white cab and chassis - no bed
green stakeside
red stakeside
green - can't tell what bed
white - smaller, f2/f3 (mostly obscured) [edit changed to f2/f3 based on size and comments]
green - smaller, f2/f3 (mostly obscured) [edit changed to f2/f3 based on size and comments]
red - can't tell what bed [edit] - bed can be seen through window of white f1, so I "think" stakeside
green - smalller, f2/f3 [edit - whole line added, I didn't even spot this little guy]
open space
red stakeside
red panel

front row only....

so anyhow if the white is a cab and chassis - no other white that is out in the open enough to see bed color.

 

Bryan, that yellow one is bigger than an F3, so it would have the miminum 134" WB. By the pic, I would guess they are 158" WB.

And the white one doesn't have any bed on it, and the others have body color beds.

 

If what I find on the internet can be trusted....

Late in 1928, after the Ford Model A had replaced the Model T as Ford's prime automobile, Ford sold its Kearny NJ assembly plant to the Western Electric Company and then moved its assembly operations to the newly constructed, 1,500 foot long, 35 acre assembly plant in Edgewater New Jersey.

Located at 309 River Road in Edgewater, New Jersey, Ford's new 400,000 square foot assembly motor plant was opened in 1930 to build the Ford Model A and was noteworthy for its ability to assemble the vehicle in 48 minutes or less from one end of the pier to the other. The Model A was then shipped out at the end of the pier on transport barges to various destination across America.

Independence Harbor History in Edgewater New Jersey

in the article:
Looking at the 2nd picture to the right of the building you can see the vehicle lot.
Looking at the 3rd picture to the left same lot.

To me it looks like a pretty good match (imagine the post #1 picture taken with the water at your back, facing the factory - similar but lower and closer to 3rd in linked article).

 

ok, I am prepared to use the term "confirmed" when referring to this as the Edgewater NJ plant. I found this pic:


from this site
Ford Edgewater Assembly Plant Pictures Assembly Building Exterior

and if you look at the ground sloping up sharply behind it's close if not a match , the long building terminating in a double pillar (you got to look at a real small part of the left edge of wide angle linked pic) is a match.

Without having someone who can personally confirm, based off geography, building characteristics, etc I'm good with this conclusion.

 

Good gravy, Brian. You should be a detective or something. I do believe you're right.

 

That makes sense that it's the green trucks stake bed... I'll blame it on my small laptop screen... That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

 

I work security for a court, it is ingrained to be super precise about details - the things that really clenched it for me beyond the architecture and the ridgeline, 2 roads (one higher one lower), and that utility building half way up the hill (granted buildings change a lot) all match every pic that I found which showed em. Makes a guy wish he could go see it today, but alas I read it has been demo'd and turned into condominiums...

I even thought briefly about going to the KC plant where my truck was born too.

 

"It's sometimes difficult to determine if quotes found on the internet are genuine or not."
-- Abraham Lincoln.

 

As shown above the Edgewater plant actually was on a pier in the Hudson River. This information came from my father who lived in the area back in the day... Also a friend of my fathers was a manager at one of assembly plants in NJ, unfortunately he is no longer with us but his stories about the early years at Ford sure were interesting. One was of a car coming down the line two tone (one side one color green and the other another color green). Another where the one side was from a 4 door and the other from a 2 door, wish I had that one. I sure miss his stories....

Paul

 

Gosh if only we could find the equipment to remake them, the factory stuff. That would be cool! Of course that's like saying, "I wish I had superpowers."

 

Now, thats funny!!

 

So, then, Al Gore didn't really invent the internet, it was Ben Franklin?