the American Dream: Model T

the American Dream: Model T by ric gustafson


In early autumn 1908, Henry Ford started producing a car called the Model T. The design of the car was simple, practical and affordable. The design was light and it had a flexed chassis. It's nickname was the Tin Lizzie because of it's mobility. It's original price was $ 850 and by 1924 was only
$ 260. The mass production of the Model T started the mass production of cars in this country.
The Model T ruled the roads from 1908 to 1927 when the Roaring Twenties came.
Henry Ford was born in July of 1863 in Dearborn Michigan. In 1893, he came up with a design for a simple car that had a two cylinder engine and four bicycle tires. In 1903, Ford started the Ford Motor Company and started with the four passenger Model A. The Model T in 1908 had a different form of steel called vanadium. The Model T could get up to 40 miles an hour and nearly 20 miles on a gallon of gas.There were three floor pedals, no gas gauge and no fuel pump. In 1913, Ford started the moving assembly line.
After 1923, sales of Model T's declined. It's chief competitor was GM's Chevrolet. In May 1927, Ford said that he was discontinueing the Model T.


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