Model+T

__**The Ford Model T**__

__**Table of Contents: **__


 * 1) Background
 * 2) The Assembly line, and Henry Fords signifigance with car production
 * 3) Ford's idea
 * 4) The Model T, "a car for the masses"
 * 5) The Model T
 * 6) Years of production
 * 7) Price
 * 8) Consumers
 * 9) Value for money
 * 10) Purpose
 * 11) The Effect of the Model T on Motoring

5. Works Cited

__**﻿Backround **__ __**﻿ **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford nor was the first car; however, Ford revolutionized both. The assembly line allowed cars to be made faster, more efficiently and cheaper. At the begining of 1913 cars at Ford motor company were being produced at about 12 hours a car, near the end of 1913 cars were being produced an hour and a half at a time. In 1927 the year the last model T was produced Ford motor company was making cars every 23 seconds, from 1909 to 1927 over 15 million model T's rolled of the line. The idea behind mass production was to increase the volume of sales. Henry Ford is truly one of the best innovating minds of all time. He took a product that at first was made for only the wealthy because of the lack of products made, to a product thats used daily by the average person.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Ford’s Idea__**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Although at the time, cars were less of a necessity and more of an expenisve luxury, Henry believed that everyone should be able to own a car. In 1903 Ford incorporated Ford Motor company. Ford was often quoted saying, “I will build a motocar for great multitude”, and he did. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">By the end of 1913 Ford's moving assembly line had improved the speed of assembling the car so drastically that the process of completion of a car went from twelve hours to one hour and thirty three minutes. By 1914, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ford was turning out more cars than 299 other automotive manufacturing companies combined. In 1914 alone, Ford popped out 308,162 Mo <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">del Ts. Those figures were astronomical compared to the meager price figures of the car which decreased as car production progressed.

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__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Model T **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Model T, also known as “Lizzie” and the ninth Ford production car, began rolling off the assembly line in Detroit’s Piquette Avenue on October 1st, 1908. Weighing around 1,200 pounds, the Model T could do a comfortable 45 miles an hour with its supplied 20 base horsepower four cylinder engine. The production of this revelation came to an end at the new Highland Park Plant with a simple closing ceremony May 26, 1927.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Model T started out with a somewhat cheap price of $805 U.S. dollars. Over the years as production progressed, the price of the car began to fall and rested at $260 for the base model. The reason for this cheap price was not only because of over production, but Ford’s production saving techniques which Henry passed on to his customers.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Due to the low price of the Model T, the cars simplicity as well as the cars ability to deal with the era’s abysmal road surface conditions, Ford’s motorcar for the great multitude became “the universal car”. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">What made the vehicle so great was not just the price, but it was how durable the vehicle was. The car came in three body styles that rode all on the same chassis. There was a truck version, a passenger versions and an absolutely beautiful convertible version. The Model T therefore became useful for all situations and because it was so cheap to buy and to maintain compared to other cars or even walking, the car could be used for years and years and years. Because this car was so useable, one would get the most for their money which makes the car fantastic value for money, even by today’s standards.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">By making the Model T, Henry Ford not only met his purpose of selling a car efficiently with top notch build quality and the availability for everyone to own one, he showed other car companies how to meet their purpose of producing many cars in an efficient matter. Therefore, the purpose behind the Model T benefited not only Ford, but everyone else.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Model T’s Effect on Motoring **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> Ford didn't only revolutionize the automotive industry with the assemlby line. Certian modifications on the Model T that made it more efecient than other cars reveloutionized the motorcar industry. Henry Ford reveloutionized the engine by making a "horse power" formula that is used to this day. Horsepower is basically work over time, so what Ford did was incorperate all the important factors such as weight of a car and made "the work over time" of the engine more efficient, more efficient horse power on a car means more efficient gas milage, gas milage is how much gas you have to use for the amount of miles you drive. So Ford made the work over time more efficient and less moolah, so people saved money on gas. Ford also made the engine run better in terms if stability and how much work it could take, for example Ford made the pistons of the car to highest accuracy possible for the best lubrication and compression of the engine. A healthy engine means a longer healthier life for the car. Ford also modified the axles <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">of the model T and made them out of Vanadium steal. With that modification, the stearing system was better equiped and the tires held their place better. Ford also modified the contol of the model T. He used a diffrent pedal system then we use today, he had all the gears as pedals. Ford helped the ov <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">erall control of the Model T easier by making it so that you could drive at a constant higher speed (40+ mph). So Ford not only reveloutionized the assembely line but the automobile itself by making it more efficient in terms of lifetime, control, and the "total workload" the engine could handle.


 * __ Work Cited __**

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