Technical Early Ford Gurus...What Year is This Steering Column Drop?

I just got this Ford steering column drop that appears to be NOS, but I can't figure out what year it is, or the original application. It has a hole that looks like a column shifter shaft would pass through, but the drop is shaped like a '37 Ford. The column shift hole makes me think '40-48, but this doesn't look like any '40-48 column drop I've ever seen.

To complicate things even more, the part number cast into it doesn't match up with anything in the "green bible."

Any ideas?

 

Lincoln?

 

I was going to suggest possibly a Mercury? Lincoln is also a good answer.. May not be a Ford but a Ford "variant"?

I'm sure Bruce Lancaster will have a good idea!

 

Lincoln and Merc were stranger than that...
I'm not familiar with the one shown, but if hole is for column shift, as it appears, I think it must be from some circa 1942-47 truck application. Pure guess, but not '40 or '42-8 passenger, so pickup...??

 

Aren't all '40-48 Ford pickups floor shift? I googled images of all the Mercury and Lincoln dashboards from '39-48, and none of them match up.

Could it be some odd Ford COE truck that was column shift?

 

I would think all COE's would have been floor shift also.

 

Some 40-41 pickups had column shift. Will look when I go to my dads. He hss some.

 

That could be it, I suppose. Where it bolts up looks about the same as the typical '40-41 pickup. I never knew you could get a pickup with column shift.

Thanks Steve.

 

Looks similar to one I have on a column out of a '36 1 1/2ton.

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After reading this Ford Barn post, I think we are on to something...although no one ever posted a photo of the elusive '41 Ford optional column shift steering column drop.

http://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31148

I think that's what this is...and this one is NOS. There can't be many of these left floating around.