Bodywork and conversions

Choose from three wheelbases, four frame lengths, front or rear-wheel drive, single or high-traction dual rear wheels (depending on model) and a single or double cab style.

Since launch, Transit has been the professional’s platform of choice for chassis cab conversions. Our designers and engineers work closely with the bodybuilding industry to ensure that all standard body types, and the majority of specialist conversions, can be fitted easily and efficiently, with little or no modification.

Each model has a robust ladder-frame chassis that provides a flat, strong base on which to build, with integral body mounting points and low frame rails. From a standard box van, dropside or tipper to a refrigerated van, mobile workshop or emergency service vehicle, the Transit forms a tough and dependable foundation for your business.

• Choice of three wheelbases and four frame lengths

• Offers maximum payload and body versatility

• Robust, flat top ladder-frame chassis with integral body mounting points for ease of body fitment

• Suitable for a wide range of bespoke bodywork conversions

• Flat, straight top of frame

• Three gross vehicle weights: 3,000 kg, 3,500 kg and 4,250 kg

• Wheelbase and overhang dimensions suitable for industry-standard body sizes: 2.8, 3.2, 3.65 and 4.0 m

• Designed to accommodate non-standard body sizes, either larger or smaller than nominal industry-standard

• Accommodates body widths from 2.05 to 2.3 m

• Robust inverted closed ‘top hat’ section pressed high tensile steel frame (double ‘top hat’ for 4,250 kg models)

• Integral body mounting points, and bolt-on saddle brackets for 4,250 kg models

• Flat vertical back of cab

• Removable rear closing member and rear lights, catering for different rear overhangs

• Easily fitted optional bolt-on rear frame overhangs, where required

• Higher centre of gravity suspension as standard to cope with large bodywork

• Electrical connections for additional exterior lighting, where required

Dual or single rear wheels are available to ensure the Chassis Cab matches your operational and bodywork needs exactly.

• Dual rear wheels – provides increased rear axle capacity and loading latitude. Best all-round combination, but ideally suited to high payload/high traction requirements. Available only with RWD

• Single rear wheels – ideally suited to narrow bodywork where vehicles are used in areas with confined space like city centres. Available with both FWD and RWD. Further benefits include reduced fuel consumption*, especially when combined with FWD

*Ford homologation figures.