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16 unusual facts about Ford Model T


Bernard Pietenpol

With the success of the Air Camper, MMI editor Weston Farmer convinced Pietenpol to design an airplane that could be powered with the cheaper and more readily available Ford Model T engine.

Blair, Nebraska

Over the years, other enterprises came and went: a plant manufacturing spark plugs used in Model T Fords; a canning company; a seed corn plant; and a church-publishing house.

Cayuga, Indiana

Local legend attributes the name to the sound made by the horn of a Ford Model T.

Coso artifact

Chad Windham, President of the Spark Plug Collectors of America, identified the Coso artifact as a 1920s-era Champion spark plug, which was widely used in the Ford Model T and Model A engines.

Flying Pigeon

Like the Ford Model T, they are only available in one colour, black, except for the flare of vanilla at the fender tips.

Ford Racing

1909 - A Ford Model T won the transcontinental New York to Seattle cross-country race (about 6600 km).

Hannah Kempfer

She campaigned throughout the county, traveling in a Ford Model T.

Jack and the Witch

The film opens with a retelling of Beowulf, narrated over pans of paintings imitative of stained glass, then cuts to Jack, a boy who lives with his animal friends Barnaby Bear, Dinah Dog, Squeeker Mouse and Phineas Fox and drives a car resembling a Ford Model T, even inside the house.

James E. Dull

By the time Dull came to campus, the Ramblin' Wreck, initially just a general name for any Georgia Tech-engineered vehicle, had come to mean Dean Field's 1914 Ford Model T.

Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages

Henry Arnink, a local dealer of Ford Model T's, had expanded his business to include repair and rental services by that time.

Lake Coeur d'Alene

There are a number of Ford Model T automobiles sitting on the bottom of the lake, due to people in the early 1900s who would drive across the lake during the winter time in order to save half the distance in getting around the lake.

Logistic function

Some of the more famous examples are: railroads, incandescent light bulbs, electrification, the Ford Model T, air travel and computers.

Machine Gun Corps

As well as motor cycles, other vehicles used included Rolls-Royce and Ford Model T cars.

Mile of Cars

Sales were slow but increased over time, fuelled by an ad for the Ford Model T in The Saturday Evening Post.

Wyndham Branch

Ford Model T bus equipment was used as the basis for two railcars in 1925, and in May 1926, the RM class Model T Ford railcars began providing a service on the line as well as on the Waikaia Branch.

Yellow Bus Services

The first service, using a Ford Model T bus in brown and yellow livery, ran between the Royal Hotel, Stoughton and the Theatre Royal, Guildford, from January 1921.


Car turntable

Henry Ford greatly expanded his production line manufacture with affordable automobiles beginning in 1913, most notably with his Ford Model T.

Ford vs. Chevy

The rivalry started by Eddie Olson and Tyrone Baker by racing a Ford Model T and a Chevy 490 in the earliest days of automobile racing.

Graham-Paige

After successful involvement in a glass manufacturing company (eventually sold to Libbey Owens Ford) brothers Joseph B. Graham (September 12, 1882–July 1970), Robert C. Graham (August 1885–October 3, 1967) and Ray A. Graham (May 28, 1887–August 13, 1932) began in 1919 to produce kits to modify Ford Model Ts and TTs into trucks.

New Zealand Railways Road Services

From Ford Model T-based cars to Straker steam trucks, to various Albion, Cadillac, Leyland and Dodge badged buses.

One Summer: America 1927

The events include the nonstop transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh; the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; the amazing season played by Babe Ruth and the rest of the 1927 New York Yankees; the transition from the Ford Model T to the new Model A; the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti; and the advent of the talking-picture era with the release of The Jazz Singer.

Yarramalong Bus Lines

A Model-T Ford was the first motorised bus to be acquired and was followed by a Chevrolet in 1948.