Check this out:1914 Model T Ford Station Wagon.
May 31, 1927,
the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. It was the first
affordable automobile, due in part to the assembly line process developed by
Henry Ford. It had 2.9-liter, 20-horsepower engine and could travel at speeds up
to 45 miles per hour. It had a 10-gallon fuel tank and could run on
kerosene, petrol, or ethanol, but it couldn't drive uphill if the tank was
low, because there was no fuel pump; people got around this design flaw by
driving up hills in reverse. Ford believed that "the man who will use his skill
and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead
of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." The Model T cost
$850 in 1909, and as efficiency in production increased, the price dropped. By
1927, you could get a Model T for $290. "I will build a car for the great
multitude," said Ford. "It will be large enough for the family, but small enough
for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best
materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern
engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good
salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of
hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."
May 31, 1927,
the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. It was the first
affordable automobile, due in part to the assembly line process developed by
Henry Ford. It had 2.9-liter, 20-horsepower engine and could travel at speeds up
to 45 miles per hour. It had a 10-gallon fuel tank and could run on
kerosene, petrol, or ethanol, but it couldn't drive uphill if the tank was
low, because there was no fuel pump; people got around this design flaw by
driving up hills in reverse. Ford believed that "the man who will use his skill
and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead
of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." The Model T cost
$850 in 1909, and as efficiency in production increased, the price dropped. By
1927, you could get a Model T for $290. "I will build a car for the great
multitude," said Ford. "It will be large enough for the family, but small enough
for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best
materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern
engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good
salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of
hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."
