Interesting Flathead V8 article from Ashley good historic content and a timeline of Henry’s icon!
As you know I try to gather as much Flattie stuff here as possible, read Ashley’s article here
Interesting article from Daniel Strohl at Hemming’s.
Was the Model T designed to run on Multi Fuels?
Read on here
Henry patented a carburetor way back in 1898 under US Patent 610040
Full patent detail here
All the patent detail can be found here
If you are ever in Detroit you can now visit the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant the birthplace of the Model T.
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is recognized as one of the most significant automotive heritage sites in the world.
The building is undergoing a restoration and was saved by volunteers.
The website is here
A great historic place to visit!
Today, you can visit the birthplace of the Model T. Avenue Plant is again open and evolving into a symbol of Detroit’s ability to invent, innovate, and rebound. Walk the plank floors worn smooth by hundreds of workers and thousands of cars. See Henry Ford’s competition, his early successes and false starts. Learn how volunteers saved one of the world’s most significant industrial building
The Model T, included in the Time Magazine “Dozen Most Important Cars of All Time”
The article is here
Henry Ford included in Time Magazine “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time ”
You can find the piece here
Henry applied for and was granted US Patent 2269451 A
This is an excerpt, including the spelling!
Provide an automobile body construction of improved’ construction. 1 v
More specifically, the object of my invention is to provide a body construction in which plastic body panels-are employed, .not only for the doors and side panels, but also for the roof, hood and all other ‘exposed panels on the body.
Plastic parts have many advantages in that they produce a quiet body, may be molded to exact sizes, may be formed economically from soy bean oil, may be readily replaced in case of accident, and result in a lighter construction.
However, there are also many disadvantages to g all such constructions in the past because the panels are not able structurally to resist the stresses to which such panels are exposed in the conventional body. In the present all-steel body the “panels are depended upon almost entirely to resist the many stresses set up in the body.
An object of this invention is, therefore, to
provide a body frame structure which will resist all normally encountered stresses independently of the body panels.
The full patent detail can be found here
It’s believed the war overtook things and the idea was never pursued.
There is also an interesting article on Henry’s plastic car by Ben Judge that can be found here at Money Week
Read the story here
The latest random Henry Ford patent is from 1926 and is a means for soundproofing gear mechanisms
The detail can be found here
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