Besides the 4/4, I'm also getting my late dad's 1924 Model T Fordor roadworthy, which shares the garage with the 4/4. The T has priority since it'll be 100 years old this year, however I'm nearly done with the job except for minor cosmetics, which will be an ongoing labor (old cars are like that, I've learned) All that's left so far as I can tell is to reroute the battery cable, charge the battery and give her some gasoline----and keep my fingers crossed! Historically, I find these very interesting automobiles. E.B. White captured the essence of the Model T in his 1936 essay:
Thanks for the link. Very entertaining. Someone in 1936 writes about a car that was already a classic car at the time of writing. And it shows what an accelerated development mankind has made in technology, from then until today. For thousands of years before that, there were cars with wheels that were pulled by horses.
Coincidentally 1911 was the year that Haynes in Maidstone (then Haynes Brothers) became the first Ford distributor in Kent when Bernard Haynes was taken for a demonstration ride in a Model T up Boxley Hill, a twisty, steep incline over the North Downs linking Maidstone with Chatham, and he was so impressed with it's performance and competitive price he ordered one immediately, and so started the long association with the Ford brand (full history here). I wonder if there was any link between that and the Ben Nevis expedition?
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Very informative and entertaining. The off-road capability was great, obviously horses were more the benchmark than smooth modern road surfaces. Some of the film's scenes in this barren landscape remind me a lot of how the Apollo mission moon cars moved around their environment.
