Just found this thread I've got a 66 m350 motor home that has a push button radio in it I will try and get some pics up

 

Just found this thread I've got a 66 m350 motor home that has a push button radio in it I will try and get some pics up.

 

Great, post some pics when you get a chance. Here's another add I found with the same radio:

1966 Mercury M100 Pick-up Ford

 

Heres a picture sorry about how long it took went back to work so I have not had much time.

 

This is another truck I found on kijiji
1966 Ford F-100

 

Nice, I missed that one, kelwar! Not sure what that radio is in your motorhome, but it looks like a good install!

 

Well, still no new info on my radio? Here's another picture of one:

1966 Mercury M-100 Custom Cab Interior | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The rest of the truck is pretty nice too!

 

I posted over at one of the old radio websites I hang around at. Here are a couple of the responses I got. If I get any more I will post them as well. I can't vouch for the correctness only repost it.


I would say CA-2TPT stands for Canada-1962-Transistor-Philco-Truck ?????? Looks very similoar to later 60s Philco-built Ford products numbers.


The other one is

"CA" is Ford part number speak for a Genuine Ford part introduced in 1960. "CB" would be in 1961 and so forth. The first letter, "C" in this instance indicates the 1960s. A part number beginning with a "B" would be of the '50s and beginning with a "D" would be a part of the '70s. The second letter represents the 2nd digit of the decade, with A=0, B=1 and C=2 and so forth.
Ask any Ford parts man and you will get the same answer.

I know that isn't definative as to the exact make and model it was in but hopefully its a beginning. If I find out any more I will post. If I don't forget I will look up in my books for a 60s ford radio and see if I can match it.

 

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American Ford part numbers had more digits than that though.

For passenger cars, 1959 part numbers would have been B9A- truck numbers B9T- but some had four places in the prefix.
For 1960 up the numbers almost always had four places in the prefix and looked like C0AF-, C0AZ-, C0TF- and lots of other combinations.

The series of radio part numbers runs in the 18,000 and 19,000 numbers. So a reasonable Ford (USA) part number for a radio could look something like C1TF18805. Sometimes, but not always, the Ford part number can be found on the radio.

I agree that the 2TPT is the model number of the radio, which is a service data identifier, and not a real Ford "part" number. That should indicate a 1962 truck radio built by a vendor with a "P" identifier. I have never seen a 1962 American Ford radio built by Philco, it was more like 1966 when the Philco radios started becoming popular. But if it is Canadian, then anything is possible.

The shop I worked at in the mid-60's had a fleet of 62-64 Econolines that had a radio which mounted with only two holes drilled for the shafts, and the faceplate contained the dial mechanism. They looked nothing like the radio in the photo, other than being very small. The faceplates were different and had no pushbuttons, I would expect they were the same entry level radios used for Ford pickups of the same vintage.


Another post was this

Looks like an after market or dealer installed Phillips radio. It was a big money maker for the dealerships to install radios.

 

Not quite true.
A part # starting with "C" is indeed from the 1960's
C1=1961
C2=1962
C3=1963
etc.
This numbering system lasted all the way up till the 2000 model year, when Ford decided to screw it up.

 

61 62 63 64 65 66 FORD TRUCK RADIO / F100 F250 F350 BRONCO 66 - 77 | eBay

came across this. just in case anyone is looking.

 

1961/66 F100/1100 / 1961/71 C Series Tilt Cab / 1963/69 N/NT/T500/1000 / 1961/67 Econoline / 1966/77 Bronco / 1967/69 F800/1000.

The chassis is the same, the mounting brackets/speaker/grille are specific to: F/N/NT/T (all have the same dash) / Bronco / C Series / Econoline. 1961/63 has tubes, 1964/77 has transistors.

There are no Ford part numbers marked on parts after 1956, just casting or ID engineering numbers (when applicable).

The basic ID engineering number for a Ford radio chassis is 18806.

The basic part number for a radio is 18805. Also the basic part number for a dealer installed kit.
There is no Ford part, casting or ID number prefix that begins with two letters after 1954. And, these two letter prefixes were only used 1952/54, some were replaced by 3 and 4 digit prefixes beginning in 1955.

See what thechief66 typed in post #85. He's an active Ford partsman, I'm the retired version.

And, just because a part/casting/ID number prefix contains a T, this doesn't mean it's an F Series truck only part. It could be any series of truck, Econoline, Bronco, or a Passenger Car part.

And, you should not go by Ford part/casting/ID number prefixes to ID what year the part fits or what vehicles(s) it fits, you wanna know why?

Because FoMoCo is in-famous for replacing/updating 10's of 1000's of part numbers EVERY YEAR!

 

Keep in mind folks the info I am posting is not mine but other radio guys like myself. We can remember the rating on a cap in a 57 chevy but to remember the actual part number of the radio we may be off.
Here is a post from someone who works on vintage auto radios for a living. I was thinking the same thing on a inside shot of the radio just before he posted it. I remember a radio more by the inside parts than just by a outside look and numbers.

With the number 2TP2, let's just say it has me scratching my head. The 1962 Ford trucks had a small radio that was a hybrid, containing tubes. The "T" means transistor. T-Birds and Lincolns had all-transistor radios beginning in 1961, but I think the rest of the Fords still had tubes till around 1964 -- which is also the first year that Philco-Ford entered the car radio market.

I think by 1972 Ford had stopped using that convention, using only the part numbers.

About the only advice I can give is to try and find a Ford book that lists these numbers, or else some Canadian schematics that might list this.

The radio doesn't look like a Philco, nor does it look like a Philips. Maybe opening the top cover might give us a clue.


Tuning shaft is plastic, with plastic gears = Philco. Also the PCB is mounted on the back of the tuner.

Philips has very small wiring, and uses smaller screws than Bendix, Philco, and Motorola.

With those round flared pushbuttons and being Canadian, I'm tempted to say Marconi.

Are there markings that say, "FoMoCo" or "F. M. Co"? Often the F.M. Co marking is a giveaway for Canadian.




Dank4120 if you get a chance open the radio up and take pictures of the insides. I have seen some radios with different outsides but once you are in the radio it is made like another one. I went through my shop manuals again last light for a quick look. I didn't find anything by mercury or ford that looked like it. The radio almost looks like the radios made that time by a company called Automatic. Audiovox was in the 60s also. I looked those up as well. One of the shops I bought out was a authorized delco repair shop. I have a lot on delcos but not as much on Ford. I have some info on the 60s stuff but I couldn't match it. I think the first thing is to match it to who made it and then find this model. If you post pictures of the insides I will post it to the other site and see if it jogs anyones memory.

 

You won't find too many Delco parts on non GM products.

DELCO = Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. founded by Charles Kettering. GM purchased DELCO when they hired Charles Kettering circa 1910.

Kettering invented the starter motor, the first vehicle to have it: 1912 Cadillac.

 

willy3486:

Thanks for working on this! I do have inside pictures of the first radio I pulled, CA-2TPT, in my galleries.

I never actually opened up the newer CA-5PT2 one I got? This one is clearly marked as a Philips: