Technical What flathead is this?

Hey y'all!

Hoping to get som info on this motor i dug out of a pile of crap a while back.

Obviously a flathead, a 21 studded one.
On the manifold deck it says BB18F and prolly the vin number after (starts with 72).

That is pretty much everything i got on this one, double waterpumps in the block and distributor straight forvard from the cam.

Any ideas?

 

Oh!
Forgot to mention, the engine is in finland, and has probably been here since the dawn of time

 

This is what's known as a "Lake Find".

 

i'm no Flathead expert , but i believe the only 21 stud with water pumps in the block was 1938....could be wrong , someone will know for sure

i'm saying USA , maybe over there things were different

 

Pumps in block indicate a 1937 or later block. Earlier than 1937 the pumps were in the heads. Some one gave the whole engine the Naval Flotation Test. Odds are very slim to not have disastrous cracks.

 

English manufacture Ford Pilot. you can tell by the cylinder number chart cast into the head. could be much later than 37-38, i think they were made with those 21 stud 221 motors till about 48? some had 2" fixed shell rod bearings and some were floating type.

 

I have very little hope that i can actually use the engine, but it's always fun to get some facts on it
Are parts intercangeable between us and brit flatheads?