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11-23-2021 @ 8:26 AM

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Thanks! Even if there only is a slim chance of finding the car, we have to try.

I have to contact Ford, or the body manufacture companys, if they still exist, to see if they have archives on what chassis number was paired with what frame number.

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/production-records

In 1937 it was only made 4,378 Convertible Sedans, so every existing one is could easily be it.

Was this model the most expensive one of the Ford V8s that year?

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11-23-2021 @ 6:00 AM

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Zeke3 is correct! I also believe the numbers are from the "Body Tag" that were attached to the engine side of the firewall. Ford supplied panels to body manufactures such as Murry and Briggs they assembled the body of open Ford cars in 1937. The body Mfg. attached their tag to the body for identification. The completed body were shipped back to Ford where they were assembled to frames with engines. Over time, body tags may have been removed since they can interfere with new paint. That practice should not happen today. The 1787 is unique to the car your looking for. The 78 also indicated the original engine was considered 85HP. The Convertible Sedan in the USA is not considered a Cabriolet. If you can get the magazines to publish your story with the complete body tag number as you have done here, there is a very remote chance the car can be found. I wish you the best of luck.

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11-22-2021 @ 3:28 PM

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Ai... That was disappointing. The clerks back in 1937 must have done a bad job. "Unders. nr." translates to frame number. They must have been to lazy to check for the right number. Or perhaps the Embassy just provided the number, without Norwegian officials checking it? We will never know.

But it is stil a way to identify the right car - if it stil exist, and if I can find it.

Could it be that the Ford factory has records that ties the Chassis number to the frame number?

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11-22-2021 @ 8:04 AM

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I have enjoyed the story and information you have discovered and hope your efforts are successful. I did not see the chassis serial number listed on the registration document you provided. The number listed appears to be from the body number tag that is attached to the dash panel (aka firewall) in the engine compartment, 78-740-1787.

model number =78, 1937 Ford Deluxe
body style=740, convertible sedan
body serial number=1787 (sequential number for this body style from supplier)

I am not aware of any existing documentation that would tie the body number to a particular chassis serial number.

The chassis serial number would be used to register the vehicle in the U.S., not the body number. Good luck with your research.

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11-22-2021 @ 6:32 AM

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Thanks 40 Coupe. This is the registration card on Miss Harrimans Ford from 1937. Luckily it includes its frame number. Does it match the series you talk about?

I will send the information to the sources you talk about, to se if I can get lucky.

The Norwegian vehicle archive by also confirm that the US embassy used A5 on another car in 1945. There is no more data on miss Harrimans Ford. That confirms that the car is not in Norway anymore at that point.

Now that I have the frame number, I am able to id the car, if I find it.

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11-22-2021 @ 4:57 AM

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TomO is correct about the federal privacy laws here in the US. The law may appear to be stupid but there are a lot of people that abuse personal information, of all types!
I suggest when you are able to obtain the vehicle serial number which may appear like, for USA built vehicles: 18-3331857 to 18-4186446 for a vehicle with an 85 HP engine or 54-6602 to 54-358334 for a 60 HP. Contact the editor of the Early Ford V8 Club, V-8 Times magizine or Hemmings motor news They can get the number published to reach many owners.

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11-20-2021 @ 3:00 PM

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With respect - that's just stupid.

Here in Norway you can go to a government page and search to find the owner of any vehicle. Its public knowledge.

I have requested all the information that is about Miss Harrimans registration number in Norway. This old archival data is not digitized yet. So they will do a old fashion search in the pre war archive. I will then get the vin-number, for example.

But that won't help me search for the car in the US. Thats disappointing.

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11-20-2021 @ 7:35 AM

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Privacy laws in the USA prevent releasing any VIN or serial numbers to the general public. If there is a record of the serial number of the car in DC, they would not be able to release it.

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11-19-2021 @ 3:06 PM

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You Are right. They did not Get any children. She remarried in 1943.

His sister got a son, that she called Robert Losey Lee. But he is sadly dead too.

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11-19-2021 @ 5:34 AM

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Capt. Robert Moffatt Losey married Kathryn Leona Gault Banta (1909-1980) on April 10 1933, I see no record of any children. Again this information and photo from Ancestry.com

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