The Complete Ford Model T Guide

A timeless and thorough contemporary guide to Ford's legendary Model T antique automobile.Learn about the Model T inside and out. This detailed illustrated guide, first printed in 1925, includes everything that classic car enthusiasts need to know about one of the most famous and innovative automobiles of all time. This handy, expansive illustrated guide includes sections on construction, operation, and repair as well as information on Model T truck and tractor conversion sets, and the Fordson Farm Tractor.Includes:Operating principlesInstructions for drivingMaintenance guidesCar and tractor repairsMore than 160 photographs, technical guides, and illustrationsUpkeep and parts guideAt one time, the Ford Model T was the most popular car in the world. The Ford Motor company produced more than 16 million of them between 1908 and 1927. Writer and automobile enthusiast, Victor W. Page, wrote this detailed guide because he did not believe that Ford included enough technical information with their cars.In the days before the Internet, owners, operators, and mechanics could learn everything that they needed to know about the Model T, conversion kits, and the Fordson Tractor from this incredible guide, which remains fun to read to this day.This special edition reprinting includes enlarged pages, remastered images digitally re-scanned from a master source, the original classic type font, and a new retro-style cover design that stands out on the shelf.Table of Contents:Chapter 1: The Ford Car, Its Parts, and Their FunctionsChapter 2: The Engine and Auxilliary GroupsChapter 3: Details of the Ford's Chassis PartsChapter 4: Driving and Maintenance of Ford CarsChapter 5: Overhauling and Repairing MechanismChapter 6: The Ford Tractor and Tractor Conversion SetsChapter 7: Operation Maintenance of Fordson TractorChapter 8: Repairing and Using Fordson TractorChapter 9: Useful Information for Repairmen and OwnersSigned by restoration edition and cover designer, Mark Bussler.

A timeless and thorough contemporary guide to Ford's legendary Model T antique automobile. Learn about the Model T inside and out. This detailed illustrated guide, first printed in 1925, includes everything that classic car enthusiasts need to know about one of the most famous and innovative automobiles of all time. This handy, expansive illustrated guide includes sections on construction, operation, and repair as well as information on Model T truck and tractor conversion sets, and the Fordson Farm Tractor. Includes: Operating principles Instructions for driving Maintenance guides Car and tractor repairs More than 160 photographs, technical guides, and illustrations Upkeep and parts guide At one time, the Ford Model T was the most popular car in the world. The Ford Motor company produced more than 16 million of them between 1908 and 1927. Writer and automobile enthusiast, Victor W. Page, wrote this detailed guide because he did not believe that Ford included enough technical information with their cars. In the days before the Internet, owners, operators, and mechanics could learn everything that they needed to know about the Model T, conversion kits, and the Fordson Tractor from this incredible guide, which remains fun to read to this day. This special edition reprinting includes enlarged pages, remastered images digitally re-scanned from a master source, the original classic type font, and a new retro-style cover design that stands out on the shelf. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Ford Car, Its Parts, and Their Functions Chapter 2: The Engine and Auxilliary Groups Chapter 3: Details of the Ford's Chassis Parts Chapter 4: Driving and Maintenance of Ford Cars Chapter 5: Overhauling and Repairing Mechanism Chapter 6: The Ford Tractor and Tractor Conversion Sets Chapter 7: Operation Maintenance of Fordson Tractor Chapter 8: Repairing and Using Fordson Tractor Chapter 9: Useful Information for Repairmen and Owners

Documents Henry Ford's creation.

Henry Ford's Model T forever changed the world. The car made "for the great multitude" (as Ford put it) first debuted in 1908 and proved so affordable and so popular that fifteen million were sold through 1927. The "Tin Lizzie" was the first automobile to be mass-produced on moving assembly lines, and built using interchangeable parts. It proved tough and reliable in everyday use, and cheap enough to spawn the automobile revolution: the car cost $850 in 1909 but amazingly by the 1920s, the price had dropped to a mere $260 due to the perfection of production techniques and economy of scale. Designed by a team that included Childe Harold Willis, Joseph Galamb and Eugene Farkas, the Model T had a front-mounted four-cylinder engine that produced 20 hp and had a top speed of 45 mph. It was a rear-wheel drive vehicle with wooden wheels, and featured a two-speed transmission plus a reverse gear. Although models varied - and many revisions took place over two decades of production - the original version weighed about 1200 pounds. Created in the 1920s and featuring information about the original Model T and the "New Model T" of 1925, this maintenance manual is an invaluable resource. It was originally intended to educate the men tasked with assembling, repairing and maintaining the Model T, and offers a plethora of information about the car, its design and operation. The text includes chapters on how to take apart and put together the car, how to overhaul the engine and transmission, valve grinding and carbon removal, rod bearings, fitting pistons and rings, correcting noisy timing gears, installation of camshaft bearings, cleaning oil lines, oil leaks, transmission band installation, axle overhauls, refurbishing and replacing springs, radiator repair, starting motor overhaul, and more. It also includes troubleshooting and general servicing information. A must have for any Model T owner, this book is also a terrific reference for the docent, historian, or anyone who ever wondered, "how did that work?"

The story of Ford Motor Company’s Model T is the story that launched the American automobile industry--and America’s love affair with the car. When he introduced the Model T in 1908, even an eternal optimist like Henry Ford could not have predicted the far-reaching changes he was setting in motion. One hundred years later, this illustrated history looks back at the beloved Tin Lizzie. The book follows the Model T from design considerations (its ground clearance, for instance, had to allow for the abysmal state of U.S. roadways at the time) to its lasting legacy, and along the way describes the mechanical, manufacturing, and marketing innovations that the car’s production entailed. Author Lindsay Brooke also relates the adventures and misadventures that were part of owning and driving a Model T. He chronicles the changes the car’s unprecedented popularity wrought in the auto industry (including Ford’s introduction of the “$5 day”), and he tracks the Model T through popular culture, from its role in early motorsports to its resurgent popularity in the 1950s and 60s as a platform for T-bucket hot rods. Illustrated throughout with period art and evocative photography, this book celebrates as never before the car that epitomized the American automobile.

"I will build a car for the great multitude," stated Henry Ford, and so he did. The Ford Model T, or the 'Tin Lizzie' and the 'Flivver' as it was also known, transformed American society, bringing mobility through car ownership to millions of middle-class Americans at a time when the horse and the railroad were the only real viable means of transport. Using moving assembly lines and the best possible materials, between October 1908 and May 1927, Ford built around 16.5 million examples of this extraordinary car. By 1918, half of all cars built in America were Model Ts and by 1925 around 8,000 a day were being produced, making Henry Ford one of the world's best-known manufacturers of automobiles. The selection of body styles varied from two- and four-seat open and closed models - tourers, town cars, runabouts, landaulettes and cabriolets - to vans and pick-up trucks, and customers could also have colours other than black!