Coordinates 42.3056572,-83.2292232
Picture dated August 2011
This 1909(?) Model T "Touring" is at Greenfield Village, part of The Henry Ford complex in Dearborn, Michigan.
The Ford Model T (known as the Tin Lizzie, T Model Ford, Model T, or T) was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile and the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.
By 1918, half of all the cars in the US were Model Ts. However, it was a monolithic bloc; Ford wrote in his autobiography that in 1909 he told his management team that in the future "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black". However, in the first years of production from 1908 to 1913, the Model T was not available in black but rather only grey, green, blue, and red. Green was available for the touring cars, town cars, coupes, and Landaulets. Grey was only available for the town cars, and red only for the touring cars. By 1912, all cars were being painted midnight blue with black fenders. It was only in 1914 that the "any color so long as it is black" policy was finally implemented.
Cars from 1909 to 1914 are characterized by a nearly straight, five-sided hood, with a flat top containing a center hinge and two side sloping sections containing the folding hinges. The firewall was flat from the windshield down with no distinct cowl.
The cars were built all over the world, with Ford having factories in:
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.; Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.; Buffalo, New York, U.S.; Los Angeles, California, U.S.; Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.; St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.; St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.; Dothan, Alabama, U.S.; Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.; San Francisco, California, U.S.; Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.; Dallas, Texas, U.S.; Columbus, Ohio, U.S.; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Geelong, Australia; São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil; Toronto, Canada; Walkerville, Canada; Copenhagen, Denmark; Manchester, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany; Cork, Ireland; Cádiz, Spain; and Yokohama, Japan
See: http://www.modelt.ca/background.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
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