Posted on 08/12/2018 6:13:12 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
The first Model T Ford is produced at the Ford plant in Detroit, MI. AKA the "tin lizzy", Ford would go on to produce over 15,000,000 of the Model T's before production ended in 1927. By the early 1920s, half of the cars in the world were Model T's.
Staggering numbers, especially for 1927.
And today Ford brags about the 10,000,000th Mustang...over a span of 54 years.
Maybe your grandfather could claim that he was the first guy to impress a woman with his ride? Seriously, thanks for sharing that!
I’d bet Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach were impressing ladies with their rides long before 1920.
The world had too much productive capacity. WW2 took care of that. War production ended much of the unemployent by initially sucking up most of the excess manpower (1940 Draft). But the utter destruction of Europe and the end of the colonial system allowed us to rebuild American prosperity unchecked — until roughly 1970.
Quite possibly!
Around the World in a Ford Model T
In a near one-hundred-year-old car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhwVjJvEjAs
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