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Showing posts with label model T. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model T. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Exact replica of a 'model T' Ford in stainless steel, near Skibereen
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
1885 horseless carriages in Russia
1893 Haynes with E. Haynes in both photos. It was the first successful automobile in America
1901 Franklin
1902 Cadillac
1904 Caddilac
1907 Isotta Fraschini (really shiny paint)
1908 Ford, the first model T
1916 Studebaker landaulet roadster (I've got thought that a roadster can't be a landaulet, and vice versa)
1925 Lincoln club roadster with body by LeBaron
1925 Locomobile
1929 Studebaker with Neysa McMein (great first name) she was a designer at Studebaker
Found digging through the photos at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/
Saturday, August 6, 2011
I found a WW1 era Model T garage that has a couple untouched remnants about 90 years later, the fan belt hangers, belt measure tool, speaker, and first aid kit. This isn't a museum.
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The hanger stretches for 20 or 30 feet on a rafter. Every hanger still has it's own part number tag, dusty and dirty, but original and untouched, stapled to the Gates brand hanger
it has the words Gates V belt Length Finder across the crown
Does anyone recognize the symbol on the speaker fabric?
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
A variety of unsual vehicles from hippo pulling carts to tanks running Pike's Peak and nuns in bumper cars via formicarus.tumblr
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Monday, July 25, 2011
The Gilmore Museum is offering classes on "how to drive a Model T" (I'd do it!)
0 comments Posted by st at 5:56 PM
- Old School!
This course will teach the skills required to drive any of the 15,000,000 Ford Model Ts built between 1908 and 1927 including:
Use of spark and throttle control levers
Coordination of hand and foot controls
Proper shifting techniques
Stopping the vehicle
Correct use of the Neutral / Brake lever
Reversing the vehicle
And of course, touring the Gilmore Car Museum collection
After your successful Road Test in an Authentic Model T you will be presented with a certificate of completion.
Sunday July 31, 2011
Morning Class – 9:30am – 12:00pm
Afternoon Class – 1:00pm– 3:30pm
Cost is $95 per student, $75 for Museum members (annual membership is $35)and must be pre-paid.
NOTE: Participants must be at least 16 years of age with a valid driver's license at time of class.
Email Events@GilmoreCarMuseum.org or phone 269-671-5089 for set up your class.
Found on Lisa's newsletter about http://www.motorcities.org/index.html
Sunday, July 17, 2011
The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds at his Oldsmobile factory in 1902. The assembly line style of mass production and interchangeable parts had been pioneered in the U.S. by Thomas Blanchard in 1821, at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. This concept was greatly expanded by Henry Ford, beginning in 1914.
As a result, Ford's cars came off the line in fifteen minute intervals, much faster than previous methods, increasing productivity eightfold (requiring 12.5 man-hours before, 1 hour 33 minutes after), while using less manpower. It was so successful, paint became a bottleneck. Only Japan black would dry fast enough, forcing the company to drop the variety of colors available before 1914, until fast-drying Duco lacquer was developed in 1926. This is the source of Ford's apocryphal remark, "any color as long as it's black". In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months' pay.
Ford's complex safety procedures—especially assigning each worker to a specific location instead of allowing them to roam about—dramatically reduced the rate of injury. The combination of high wages and high efficiency is called "Fordism," and was copied by most major industries. The efficiency gains from the assembly line also coincided with the economic rise of the United States. The assembly line forced workers to work at a certain pace with very repetitive motions which led to more output per worker while other countries were using "less productive methods". (higher quality work from master mechanics, master carpenters, master craftsmen were forced out of auto manufacturing, replaced by unskilled labor at drastically less per hour) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/changing-times-in-auto-industry.html
In the automotive industry, its success was dominating, and quickly spread worldwide seeing the founding of Ford France and Ford Britain in 1911, Ford Denmark 1923, Ford Germany 1925; in 1921, Citroen was the first native European manufacturer to adopt the production method. Soon, companies had to have assembly lines, or risk going broke; by 1930, 250 companies which did not, had disappeared.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
Sunday, July 10, 2011
The Wanderwell expedition "WITH CAR AND CAMERA AROUND THE WORLD" in a Ford Model T from 1921-1924, pure adventure
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Among the advertures, the Wanderwells were present at the opening of King Tut's tomb, visited the Pyramids and Sphinx, the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, Mayan and Aztec ruins in Mexico and Central America, and Angkor Wat in Indochina
One of the original newsreels can be seen here http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/digital/vmc_newsreels/video.php?vid=5_25
Along the way around the world in search of adventure and restoring international travel after WW1, Walter Wanderwell ended up using elephant fat for oil, bananas for greasing the rear axle diff, and in places where gas wasn't available, hired people and horses to tow the vehicles.
By taking command of Unit 2, Aloha became the first woman to drive from Paris to Peking as well as the first woman to girdle the globe south of the Himalayas. At times she disguised herself as a man and prayed in Mecca… hunted elephants in Indo-China, became a confidante of Chinese bandits, and was even granted the title of "Honorary Colonel” in the Red Army of Siberia… and hob-nobbed with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks during a visit to Hollywood. 
Together, the two Ford cars covered Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, crossing the Red Sea then to India, Burma, Indo-China, Siberia, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, and arrived by steam ship January 5, 1925 in San Francisco, for the last leg of the around the world tour.
Her incredible travels and biography are on her official website AlohaWanderwell.com
To get a travel around the world narrative in a nutshell, a condensed version of the travels are here: http://alohawanderwell.com/about/timeline.html and it's immediately apparent that a lot of troubles were overcome, like being jailed for working underage, then being held for being pregnant (both false, and this was in Pasadena California!) plus getting fined for impersonating military officers due to their uniforms... Feb1925
Captain Wanderwell kept the expedition alive in a time where financial contributions from sponsors were unheard of. He sold ads and bartered with local merchants to bring in the revenue that kept them moving forward. He cranked tens of thousands of feet of film through 35-millimeter movie cameras along this fantastic journey. These films were shown in theaters to paying audiences in every city they visited, after which souvenir booklets of the trip were sold, thereby generating the money needed to buy gas and supplies so the expedition could continue.
The Wanderwells left their cars on display in a central square in downtown Calcutta after arriving in a mad dash from Egypt, and went to bed. By the time they were rested, two of the Douglas World Cruisers had landed in a river next to the square (the planes were equipped with pontoons) and were also on display, along with the crews that had flown them there.
So the two groups of explorers--one airborne, the other landlocked--met in Calcutta, and Aloha recorded the event on film. She was the only one to film the event, and in 1989 a New York film company called David Grubin Productions has come up with the idea of a television series based on stories that illuminate the "American Experience" and has chosen the 1924 round-the-world flight to lead off the 1989 season. In researching the story, Grubin discovered that Aloha Baker was unique among living witnesses of the flight (two of the pilots are still living and are interviewed on the show) because she had actual film footage of her meeting with the fliers. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-30/news/li-379_1_great-air-race
By 1929, when they had concluded their initial trek across the globe and released their documentary WITH CAR AND CAMERA AROUND THE WORLD, the Wanderwells had become internationally acclaimed explorers. Their initial expedition was followed by an even more extraordinary adventure deep in the Mata Grosso region of the Amazon basin, when their plane went down in the uncharted jungle and Aloha had to remain behind with an indigenous tribe while Walter slowly made his way back to civilization to secure replacement parts, a trek that took several months. The ever-resourceful Aloha charmed the natives, continued filming, and carefully documented their lives. Her film, FLIGHT TO THE STONE AGE BOROROS, was the earliest filmed record of the Bororo tribe and stands today as an important anthropological resource within the Smithsonian Institute’s Human Studies Archive.
When they returned from a trip to Europe in 1932, they bought a yacht that had been confiscated from rumrunners by the U.S. government. Wanderwell spent much of his time on the yacht while Baker was editing film in Hollywood.
via http://automuseums.info/node/1154 where they are helping to spread the word that Richard Diamond, ( AlohaWanderwell@cox.net ) Aloha's grandson who looks after Aloha Wanderwell's legacy is trying to find any of the original cars from the expedition "if anyone knows of any of these cars that might be in a collection please contact AlohaWanderwell@cox.net . The hoods from some of these auto's, had signatures from USA presidents, famous actors etc. they may still exist"
Alan Boyd and Richard Diamond are working on a film documentary to be called, A DRIVING PASSION. It will include the remarkable films of the Wanderwell Expedition, unseen for over 65 years. I hope this exciting adventure documentary will finish production in the future.
I've never seen so many AAA and other club badges outside a museum, and she is standing next to a car with the ones she personally earned the hard way
More info from a 3 page article http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-29/news/li-2433_1_walter-baker
All of these images are Copywrite of The Nile Baker Estate and Richard Diamond, conservator
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