Fordson was originally a tractor brand and its name was to "identify it as a product of Henry Ford & Son, this was a company wholly owned by members of the Ford family, while the Ford Motor Company was partly owned by a small number of shareholders".

 

Apart from US production there also was production in England. In the beginning of the war , the British Ministry of Supply specified the design for 15cwt, 1 ton and 3 ton trucks, designated W.O.T. (War Office Truck) numbering them 1, 2, 3, etc.

 

The W.O.T. 2 a 15cwt. vehicle was made on a stripped chassis of a civilian model 61. A letter suffix to the model number identified the exact version ranging from A to H (*) Farm Tractors in Colour by Michael Williams ISBN 0 7137 0653 8 from Blanchford Press Ltd.

 

Ford Military Vehicles by L.Geary ISBN 086025 856 4 from Ian Henry Publications Ltd.

 

This is not the first model, because this one does not have the 'Slatted' Grill, and the 'Tilting' wind-screens, it has Canvas side aprons ,canvas upper curtains and a wire-mesh grill but stil the seperate wind-screens,, which probably make it a 2-C model.

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