1908 Ford Model T

We're going back to the year 1908! The year that London Debuts as host of the Olympics, Robert Baden-Powell founded the scouting and from the Eiffel Tower for the first time a long-distance radio message is sent. 1908 is also the birth year of the Ford Model T.

When the Ford Model T see is the light of the world differently than we know him now. One was despite the arrival of the railway in the 19th century still very locally focused in doing and let. Transport over longer distance was precious and for the transport of door-to-door horse for the car was still tense. This meant that of landscaped roads barely there was and that the infrastructure was not calculated on the arrival of the car. The Benz Patent Motor car had then maybe the way forward pointed out, it was the Model T that eventually for an unprecedented step would provide and the authorities would moons to hefty investment.

Business Operations
Henry Ford caused a true revolution in the field of business management. Where produce in large numbers is commonplace nowadays was that in the beginning of the 20th century almost unthinkable. Luxury goods as cars were mostly on demand and made by hand. Up to that time were therefore ´ s car exclusively been within range of the rich and famous and were soon elevated to a status symbol as a result. By the margin decrease was, however, substantially per copy this past time and the car came within range of the American middle class. This was ultimately the purpose of Ford: ' I will build a car for the masses. This will be made with the best materials, by the best employees and with the simplest modern techniques. And my car will be so low in price that each man with a good salary will be able to buy one. ´

Gravity
During his nineteen years non-stop production is the Model T equipped with a 2.9 liter engine line. Although the now habit is good, it was one piece cast block a unique innovation for that period. Starting the engine served with the hand to happen and was repeatedly a dangerous job. If the engine was not first in the correct orientation could put the start lever namely retaliate with nasty consequences for the wrist in the unlikely event of the starter. Also the petrol tank sat on a somewhat unfortunate place, namely pal under the Chair. Funny is that gravity caused the fuel to the engine. However a result was that if the tank is almost empty was a steep hill only in his backwards could be taken. Laugh anyway! Pas this remedied by the tank problem in 1926 was to move.

Conveyor belt
Ask a random passerby what thought at the Ford Model T ´ t rises first and ' assembly line-production ' will be a very much heard his reply. The iconic T is indeed the first car where manual manufacturing was largely replaced by machines and specialized work units. With this modern way of producing ´ knew Henry Ford its low-price-ideal after to make this a reality and soon began to bear fruit. The demand for the Model T increased by the day. In 1925 rolled 10,000 cars from the factory every day against a selling price of only $ 240,-while the introductory price $ 850,-yet. In 1915 after the milestone of one million copies sold after entering "LOND" was just before the end of the production was in 1927 the 15 million pieces passed. Today this means still a third site for the Model T in the rank list of best-selling models of all time. Only the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Beetle, the first Ford of let it go. Another fun trivia is that the market share of the Model T in the United States peaked early 20s above 50%. A figure that then never approached by any manufacturer is more than well. The success was so great that even a penny between 1917 and 1923 had to be spent on marketing costs. The Model T sold whole himself.

On steam
Henry Ford believed in the approach that sacred as a car well designed there was nothing more to had to be changed. This thought made his factories efficient and cheap to make it work, but also for the Model T finally proved the downfall. In the second half of the 1920s was the competition also good on steam come and offered this affordable car with a richer equipment and more modern design. The Model T was since its birth only a few details on the custom. A vision that its expiry date in 1927 when the cloth showed had overwritten finally fell for the Model t. The Model A succeeded him.

The way forward
The Ford Model T is an icon for the automotive world, not because of the car itself but where he stood for. It was the first ever ' world car '. Produced in very large numbers and to a fixed recipe. The Model T