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I just noticed a body number on my center door. Its on the floor, just inside the right door. I did a search of this forum and didn't find any reference to a body number like this.

The number is BS16994 (Please no BS Jokes.....)



Any information about a body number?

Thanks!
Rich

B usually stands for Beaudette.

This is the number on my '22 Centerdoor

Curious. My 22 Center Door doesn't have any markings there. It was my understanding that only the engines were numbered at that time, but I don't profess to have much wisdom on the subject.

Russ T Fender wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:44 pm

This is the number on my '22 Centerdoor

I just realized how awesome that picture is -

From the club for those new-fangled Fords with shifty transmissions and clutches:
1920. Efforts were started in 1916 to locate a Ford assembly plant in Des Moines. The facility was completed at Nineteenth St and Grand Ave in 1920. The building is six stories in height with 233 feet frontage on Grand Ave and cost $420,000.

From TheHenryFord's site:
Starting in 1912, Ford Motor Company opened domestic assembly plants throughout the United States. Assembling automobiles closer to regional markets reduced shipping costs -- parts were cheaper to ship than completed automobiles. Ford's Des Moines, Iowa, branch assembled vehicles from 1920 to 1932. In the early 1920s, the branch also built car bodies which were shipped to other regional factories for vehicle assembly.

Some Centerdoors have a body number there on the floor. Ours doesn't have a number there either. I believe being the number is stamped in wood, it depends on how much use the car had or possibly had a carpet to protect the number.