Ford Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels

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When Ford Motor Company introduced the Model T in late 1908, company officials knew they had a winner. Ford was already the national sales leader and the new car was a significant improvement over its predecessors. Yet even an inveterate optimist like Henry Ford could not predict the far-reaching changes his “Tin Lizzie” would affect.

One hundred years later, this marvelously illustrated history of the automobile that launched an American industry takes on all aspects of the Model T’s genesis, production, marketing, and legacy. Veteran automotive journalist and editor Lindsay Brooke examines everything from infrastructure considerations that influenced ...

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Overview

When Ford Motor Company introduced the Model T in late 1908, company officials knew they had a winner. Ford was already the national sales leader and the new car was a significant improvement over its predecessors. Yet even an inveterate optimist like Henry Ford could not predict the far-reaching changes his “Tin Lizzie” would affect.

One hundred years later, this marvelously illustrated history of the automobile that launched an American industry takes on all aspects of the Model T’s genesis, production, marketing, and legacy. Veteran automotive journalist and editor Lindsay Brooke examines everything from infrastructure considerations that influenced the car’s design (its ground clearance, for example, was predicated on the abysmal state of U.S. roadways) to the production methods that evolved to meet the burgeoning demand for the car, and Ford Motor Company’s introduction of the revolutionary “five-dollar day.” Brooke also covers the Model T’s predecessors, early sales and marketing efforts, model changes, and T trucks, as well as adventures and misadventures with Model Ts and the car’s role in early motorsports and hot rodding.

Illustrated throughout with photography and period art, much of it from the Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels is a fitting tribute to the first automotive icon.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780760327289
  • Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 4/15/2008
  • Edition description: First
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 545,990
  • Product dimensions: 9.50 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Detroit-based auto writer Lindsay Brooke has been covering automotive and motorcycle technology and history for more than 25 years. He is senior editor of Automotive Engineering International, published by the SAE, and has served as editor of Automotive Industries magazine (successor to The Horseless Age and The Automobile). This is his fourth Motorbooks title.

Table of Contents

Contents

Forewords By Bill Ford, Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company and Patricia Mooradian, President, The Henry Ford

Introduction The Most Important Car in History
The impact of Henry Ford and his Model T

Chapter 1 Before the Model T
Ford's early history and the "alphabet" cars-Models A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S

Chapter 2 The Model T Is Born
Genesis and mass production

Chapter 3 Tin Lizzie Evolves
Charting the changes of the "changeless" Model T

Chapter 4 Life with Lizzie
Owning and driving the Model T

Chapter 5 The T Goes Truckin'
Stripper chassis, Roadster Pickups, and the TT

Chapter 6 Racing and Rodding the T
A century of going fast-and keeping "cool"

Chapter 7 Model T's Second Century
Collecting, restoring, and flivver-fun in the Internet age

Appendixes
Acknowledgments
Index

Foreward

On June 16, 1903, a 39-year-old Detroit businessman named Henry Ford formed a company to build and sell automobiles. His business plan was simple: he wanted to make cars affordable for the average family.

Within a few short years, this simple idea changed the world.

To fully appreciate the impact my great-grandfather had on people's lives, you have to understand what life was like when he started his company. In 1903, there were only 8,000 cars in the United States and less than 150 miles of paved road. The average wage was 22 cents an hour. Most people rarely traveled more than 25 miles from home in their entire lifetime.

To build cars for what he called "the great multitude," Henry Ford worked on a series of progressively better-designed and lower-priced cars. Finally, in 1908, he introduced his automotive masterpiece: the Model T. Within a few years he had adopted the moving assembly line and $5-a-day wage, manufacturing innovations that helped create and define the industrial age. This remarkable combination of vision, process, and product put the world on wheels and began modern life as we know it.

The Model T was simple, affordable, and reliable. It changed the way we live, work, and play, providing mobility and prosperity on an undreamed-of scale. In time, it became an integral part of everyday life, popular culture, and even our language.

Whether you call it the Tin Lizzie or the Car of the Century, 100 years after its introduction the Model T is assured of its place in history, and in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts around the world.

Bill Ford
Executive Chairman
Ford Motor Company

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