The Old Model T Ford Was cassomebody Safe à Rabulag Good Car, and More Than a Million Continue to Prove It on the Road
It's No Joke Now-It's History
month
tenth
LAST many of the manufacture as vote or and 10 you
which represented wheels, and opened the way for fast you were going, and no mile Ford Jol
on of the revolution nomadic life of which the trailer` playing in national Is the latest expression. Every had come. You had to know your Ford car of the last Model T Ford.
in 1917. But at that the Model T on
streets is at individual car and its potentiali- life,
out 2,500,000 of the
All this vast hge doubtless least 10 years. old. Automobile ties, to dead-reckon these things, time only
appeared. Be- ̈ statisticians who make these - mat- You had to thumb innumerable little black cars had a
crcase cups every few hundred fore the affair was over, 13,000,000 had to come, but the agent of it ters their business tell me that 900,-
a homemade, two-cylinder 600 Model T passenger cars are still miles or so, and come into intimate more of them had been added to the was to be a bright young man who in active service, and 270,000 Model rapport with all sorts of machinery. nation's highway, added till they steered a T trucks, or a total of perhaps 1,. Modern motorcars are half aútoma- ran through the streets of cities car out of his toolhouse on Bagley the like swarms of ants, till an obser- Avenue in Detroit, one dark night 250,000. That is one of the final tic and run themselves, but
of the in 1893, and popped off coolly to fame and billionairedom. The car extraordinary facts in what is un- Model T and its owner were a team ver blindfold in any part
which young, Henry Ford drove out doubtedly the most amazing record
that night had bicycle wheels and cooling system; it steered with tiller, and alarmed the few people
in all automobile history
It is hard to know whether to ap-
proach Model
as a Machine.
By Richard Lee Strout
4 as a Personality or and needed mutual respect and un- United States could tell the fami
liar bleat of their horn, or the who hadn't heard its chugging mo..
rattle of a loose fender hitting a rut.
In either role it derstanding,
If ever an in- was impressive.
On the statistical side Model T animate mechanism seemed to have character of its own, it was Model was even more amazing. It is hard T. It was faithful and serviceable to think of any other machine that and affectionate, and on a modest so completely altered the life and diet of oil and gasoline would per- habits of a continent. form prodigies of endurance. It presenting the figures themselves tions. was far closer to the owner's heart does its historical improtance fully c than the sleek robots of today appear.
cotton
tor with an electric
gong. Its cy- linders v
Were
made of iron exhaust -pipe salvaged from the, Edison Company, where the young en- gineer worked.
Model T transformed America. And it did very much the same Only by thing in other great industrial: na
Ten years ago, Model T left the Most American children come across a footnote sooner or production lines for good. It made the mistake of the dinosaur, and re- All in all, from first to later in their history books pointing
of the importance
Elihu mained a conservative in an evolv- You had to build up a mutual un- last, in 19 years incredible success, to
ing world. There was too much derstanding with your Modle T to 15,456,468 Model T's were manufac- Whitney's invention of the
Covered Wagon in the angular, stact its full response. There tured. The sociological effect can gin, which fixed the economic con box-like little car for an American was no speedometer to tell you how be gauged by one item. The famous ditions of the South for a century that had become conscious of grace
But along came the Model T and
and beauty, besides utility, in mo. put economical transportation
torcar transportation. From first THE
the doors of the whole nation. It
to last it was as remorselessly uti- was a wonder-working machine out
litarian as a kitchen sink. of H. G. Wells, & Space Shrinker But there are those of us who and Distance Diminisher Owners love Model T still. It was a char- couldn't believe, when they started.
iot worthy of the mothers and out for the customary 20-mile drive fathers we drove in it, worthy to Uncle Ethelbert's that they would really get there in an hour or so. From force of habit, they packed a lunch.
M
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
to himself. Some of these people your neek the ricksha
expect so much for their ten cents, you
man
at
sung ladies we took out to friend Eric rails at the con-ple, and are glad to have it. And
ide Can we say more? Two steps tents of this humble column there is the cold season of June, At
peto its lofty seat, the elang of of mine. He says the sort of stuff when everybody catches one.
allic door perched high in a I write wasn't what he paid for, and least I have one. It is quite easy.
Model T produced the greatest lant little puritanical steed that that if there is to be much more The night before you stagger out of it, and I let him know, he will of your pet bar, after a good night, power plant in the country and gave no slightest concession to art we were inim flying save his ten cents. I must see about feeling as fine as the night looks broke it up into millions of pieces or beaut printing him a special edition, all You feel so fine that you walk on and scattered it about among the throne.
Was the wind that swept by in and that is so good that garages of the nation. It was the
and McGuffey's reader in elementary our headlong flight sweetens in those and forget that there are others. I carry on till you perspire gently. mechanics for a nation. It was days? Or were we merely young- Our rattling charger panted know this grumbler and others like Arrived home, you sit awhile under Model T also which introduced er?
or in a draught, cooling off, most of our automobile problems faithfully over the roads. We had He would give anybody, no the at feels good also.
It was the instrument an unobstructed vision fore and Id the today. of flour, and in his most generous bordig, whed you wague ub, your which transformed a horse-and- aft that has not been surpassed by - We had no more moment, if he had two apples, one head feels ligue a lub of subthig buggy world into a complicated any car since.
civilisation of motor highways, streamlining than a shop window, red, one green, he would eat the solid ad heavy, ad you dode care a red one and keep the other for him- dab whether the office is oped or wayside stands, traffic fatalities, and didn't know it, and didn't care. Your eyes shard, your dose parking problems, competition with Ah me! those reflections flash by self. So far as I am concerned, if dot.
| railroads, and courtships: carried as our mo
modern, streamlined car a cough. he can manage to borrow a kettle, ruds, and you
on in sedans rather than in the old sweeps past an old-fashioned Model beg some water, and sneak the e fire, Every fool you beed dells you
fashioned front parlour. The Model T one of the million or more sur- he is welcome to go and boil his good gure for ad you hadeevery-
ayatin panting out calf's head. It is
Pity I said body ad wish you were dead, ad oud/T, as a symbol of what was to come vivors to-day
moved city folk out into the coun- faithful service to mankind, and calf's, head, for it bars a necessary of id all. But the other months of the try, and made the city available to not one of them after less than 10
before year in Hong Kong are all right farmers. It put the whole nation on years old.
except to buy local shares in.
him. matter who, a biscuit for a barrel and
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reference to casting pearls
swine.
spicy
He wants, he says, some pars, on local things and people. Voices In
develob
Just so. The taste for strong The Hereafter cigars, as pointed as a steeple. Gin
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ger hidden in the dulcet word, a Tobacco smoking says a spiritua- laugh in every line; a note of what list, is good for the hfe spiritual. the Thespian calls "the bird"; the The spiritualist in question was in- sparkle of good wine. I know. Istructed to this effect by the theogo- am eager to oblige; • and push the {phical" "Masters and Mahatmas. homocea pen, but when there's no- mysélf am an Adept from Mercury. thing doing at all, how can we do (This has not been generally known, it? The local field is very dull. but there can be no harm in mention-
in ing it now, since this spiritualist!
Government does nothing has divulged the secrets of the Great
fact it's busy doing nowt,
day seems sad and long. That's how White Lodge). It may be remem- I am caught. How make good bricks bered by those interested that Sir without straw?
The
Cold Season
Oliver Lodge once had a Message about, Spirit Cigars in the Beyond, There are o advices from Over There Ulysses learns on good au- thority, on the subject of Prohibi- Hong Kong has two cold seasons, fión, but the faithful occultist need There is the cold season of Decem-e in no doubt that booze conduces to ber and January, when you get. our visioną, and is therefore probably PLE overcoat back from the
peo holy as the Holy Carpet.
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germs, whilst the salivalim nated with curative elements, gently ws down the throat, soothing he affected parts. ---
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