Video showing Henry and Edsel with the “New Ford Car”
Henry Ford
It sure looks like Ford had an experimental gas-turbine Model T running around in the Twenties – Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
Don’t try to wipe your screen to clear up that blurry image above: It’s a screen-capture from a 50-plus-year-old promotional video uploaded to YouTube at a low resolution setting, so that’s about as sharp as it gets. It’s also about… Read More ›
Ford Once Took A Patent On A Car With The Craziest And Least-Used Car Layout Ever – Jason Torchinsky @Gizmodo
I’ve had some wonderful opportunities to pester Ford’s archive department for interesting bits of weirdness that may be lurking in their voluminous stacks of records. One of the things I asked the dedicated archivists to look out for would be… Read More ›
Movie About The Legacy Of Henry Ford Is In The Works – Shane McGlaun @FordAuthority
The legacy that Henry Ford left behind for not only his namesake company but the automotive industry, in general, can’t be denied. A new movie has received the green light after landing a grant from a Detroit nonprofit that supports… Read More ›
Mansions and Homes of Detroit’s Richest Residents
Video from eddiebatmv of the homes of the richest of the Detroit residents most of which are those of the automotive barons of the 1920’s and 1930’s, including the Ford, Dodge and Fisher families
1906 Ford Model K Touring Car
Seller’s Description: Wearing a beautiful and correct reproduction body, K 297 has been fully gone through mechanically and successfully participated in the 2018 Lansing to Dearborn run. An older restoration, it shows well and is accompanied by the correct rebuilt… Read More ›
A Fordson for fun: Scale tractor built for Henry Ford’s grandchildren heads to auction – Kurt Ernst @Hemmings
Much like his Model T automobile, Henry Ford’s affordable tractors brought mechanization to the masses, and the Fordson Model F was perhaps the most common small-farm tractor of the early 1920s. To teach farming to his grandchildren, Ford requested a circa… Read More ›
Edsel Ford: What might have been – Robert Sherefkin @automotivenews
Had Henry’s son been given more power and more time, the company would have a different look today Henry Ford was the pivotal manufacturing genius of the 20th century. His mass production of the automobile changed the world. But his… Read More ›
The Life Cycle of the Ford Flathead V8: 1932 – 1953 – Albuquerque Tumbleweed Ford Flathead V8 Club
Great timeline on the Ford Flathead V8 from Albuquerque Tumbleweed Ford Flathead V8 Club Read all the interesting facts and figures here
Harvey S. Firestone (Wikipedia)
On February 7, 1938, automotive industry pioneer Harvey Samuel Firestone, founder of the major American tire company that bore his name, dies at the age of 69 in Miami Beach, Florida. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Type Subsidiary Industry Manufacturing Founded… Read More ›