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Ford Manufactured the Econoline (E300) Box van starting in 1973. It was Fords direct entry into the commercial mid size heavy equipment markets. Prior to the 1973 E300 Box Vans release. Only larger fleet customers could purchase a roll up full rear door box van. Its release enabled a larger group of business and trades to purchase the vans new. Ford continues to sell updated versions of this very successful design to this day. It has changed to the E350 but the concept is still the same. The 14 gauge welded steel boxes ranged from 10 feet to 18 feet in lenght, with an interior height of 6 feet 2 inches. The boxes also know as the high cube design were designed with square corners and edges to optimize their cargo space. This design also allowed the boxes on these vans to be able to load and carry items with square edges like cabinets, without wasting space due to the ceilings interior concave shape of other manufactures vans of the time. Their roll up rear door is full width enabling for much larger and heavier loads to be place into them with a forklift. The E300 Box Van started as a one ton configuration. They could be ordered with two ton configurations also. When ordered with the heavier suspension they had a payload capacity of 4300 pounds.

The E300 box Vans GVW vary determined by the suspension configuration at manufacturing. An average GVW for these is 8,300 pounds unladen The payload and weight capacities are due mostly to the twin I beam front end, and rear end taken directly from the F250 pickup truck. They have been a favorite of many of the major moving equipment rental chains since Ford first released them. They have a lower rear deck for ease of loading that larger truck mounted boxes of their load capacity. For more information on the Ford Ecololine Van family and other model years visit this page Ecnoline. "Econoline".</ref>