{"id":58,"date":"2007-02-16T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/the-ford-model-t-at-a-glance\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:39:13","slug":"the-ford-model-t-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/58\/the-ford-model-t-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ford Model T at a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"147322a129097e1fa44d6732c925fd6d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/henry-ford-american-roadway.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/covers\/a161.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Production 1908-1927<br \/>\nPredecessor Ford Model S<br \/>\nSuccessor Ford Model A<br \/>\nBody style sedan, coupe, pickup truck<br \/>\nEngine 177 in\u00c2\u00b3 (2.9 L) 4 cylinder motor, 20 hp<br \/>\nTransmission Rear wheel drive, planetary gear, 2 speed<br \/>\nFuel capacity 10 gallons<br \/>\nDesigner Henry Ford, Childe Harold Wills, Joseph A. Galamb and Eugene Farkas<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford&#8217;s Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car which &#8220;put America on wheels&#8221;; this was due to some of Ford&#8217;s innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting, as well as the concept of paying the workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car, so that they would provide a ready made market. (Ford also attempted a &#8216;buy on time&#8217; program to aid sales, resembling that of the German Kdf-Wagen [the forerunner of the Volkswagen Beetle]. Ford&#8217;s plan was not a success, either.) The first production Model T was built on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F58%2Fthe-ford-model-t-at-a-glance%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production 1908-1927 Predecessor Ford Model S Successor Ford Model A Body style sedan, coupe, pickup truck Engine 177 in\u00c2\u00b3 (2.9 L) 4 cylinder motor, 20 hp Transmission Rear wheel drive, planetary gear, 2 speed Fuel capacity 10 gallons Designer Henry Ford, Childe Harold Wills, Joseph A. Galamb and Eugene Farkas The Ford Model T (colloquially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}