Download or read book Ford Model T written by Lindsay Brooke and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Grandfather and His Model T written by Heino A. Puotinen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Model T FordOwner written by Murray Fahnestock and published by Distal. This book was released on 1968 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Model T in Me written by Sarah Newberg and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ᅠThe Model T in Me is about a girl and the love for her dad that continues in the most unexpected way after he dies. Ride along with Sarah on her adventures learning to drive the Model T. There are many bumps along the way, but she overcomes them, and unlocks a passion inside her for the Model T that she didn t know she had.

Download or read book The Sanford Tales written by Wm. J. Green and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I interviewed for the job, Keith Beal, the Research and Development Director, and my immediate supervisor, gave me a tour of the manufacturing area and made it a point to stop at a small table. There were about three or four assemblers at the table manually placing Sharpie “reservoirs” into Sharpie “barrels”, fitting the “ferrule” (top half of the pen) into place, spin welding the assembly, adding the ink with a foot-operated syringe, setting the tip and cap in place, and then placing the finished marker in a box that was partitioned to hold twelve rows of twelve—one gross of product. “This,” Keith told me, “Is the Sharpie Marker.” All Bill wanted as he interviewed for the job of chemist at Sanford Ink Company in Bellwood, Illinois was a way to support his young family. He could worry about making his mark in the world after his family had a place to sleep, a used car to drive, and food in the refrigerator. Furniture for the apartment could come later. What happened next is today a piece of Americana.

Download or read book His Grandfather s House written by Ron Fritsch and published by Ron Fritsch. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neighbors tell Kurt his grandfather, who has been his guardian since he was four years old, committed a series of crimes to acquire his farm. In this coming-of-age novel, Kurt needs to know if the neighbors’ stories are true. The crimes they say his grandfather got away with include fraud, forgery, arson and murder.

Download or read book Grandpa Wouldn T Lie written by Samuel D. Perry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandpa Wouldn't Lie is the heartwarming story of a boy's relationship with his grandparents. Through stories told by his grandfather, the author learns, not only his family heritage, but important lessons about personal values and the meaning of life. Although essential reading for members of the author's family, this book has appeal for the general reader, too. The stories contained within it take the reader back to a time when life in the southern Appalachians was harsh and, sometimes,brutal. However, through the stories told by his grandfather, the author learns that integrity and family honor can triumph in the face of unrelenting difficulties. This is a book that will be read again and again, by both young and old. The reader will be long in forgetting it.

Download or read book The Model T written by Robert H. Casey and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Henry Ford’s Model T changed the world. 2009 Michigan Notable Book, Library of Michigan “I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and take care of. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”—Henry Ford First rolled out in 1908 with an $850 price tag, the Model T Ford was the nation’s first mass-produced, affordable, and versatile motor vehicle. It made Americans mobile as never before, spurred a revolution in manufacturing methods, and marked a sea change in automotive design and engineering. Originally written for the centennial celebration of the Model T, Robert Casey captures the remarkable story of that car’s history and development and of its long-lasting impact on America. Here are the people who built the Model T and how, the folks who purchased it and why, and the profound technological leaps in mass production and mass consumption that we rightly associate with Ford’s automobile. Casey discusses how the car was designed, built, sold, and driven, as well as how owners tinkered with it. He describes the experience of driving a Model T and explains how a few engineering innovations—a one-piece cylinder block with detachable cylinder head, a clever flexible suspension system, the use of lightweight vanadium alloy steel—led to the car’s reliability and popularity and spurred innovations across the motor vehicle industry. Richly illustrated with archival photos from The Henry Ford, The Model T is the definitive history of an iconographic piece of American technology.

Download or read book Bill Sherk Behind the Wheel 3 Book Bundle written by Bill Sherk and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rubber meets the road in Bill Sherk’s well-loved series of automotive books, a must-read for fans of classic and, er, “classic” cars. Includes 60 Years Behind the Wheel: From rumble seats and running broads to power tops and tailfins, Bill Sherk captures the thrill of motoring in Canada from the dawn of the twentieth century to 1960. Old Car Detective: Canada’s very own "Old Car Detective" Bill Sherk presents 80 of his favourite stories from all 10 provinces, spanning the years from 1925 to 1965. I’ll Never Forget My First Car: Bill Sherk describes in vivid detail the trials and tribulations of those brave souls who threw caution to the wind and money down the drain: They went out and bought their very first cars.

Download or read book Minor Miracles Second Edition written by Ian Uhlmann and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Uhlmann was born in Bulimba Queensland at the beginning of the Great Depression. He went on to serve in the Australian Military in Malaya and Vietnam. This book offers insight into sometimes hidden aspects of Australian military history and the conduct of the wars in Malaya and Vietnam.

Download or read book The Boy in the Model T written by Stephen Longstreet and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hot Rod World of Robert Williams written by Robert Williams, Pete Chapouris, Mike LaVella and published by . This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated autobiography, putting Williams' work in the context of his hot rod background, and telling of the wild formative years behind one of America's biggest underground artists.

Download or read book Reminiscences of a Christian Family written by Silas Dobbs McCaslin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silas McCaslin provides true stories about his grandparents and parents in their Christian lives in the early twentieth century South. He then describes his life in a small southern town in the 1940s and 1950s, filled with BB guns, barefoot summers, shooting marbles, riding bikes, unsupervised hours of outdoor play, unlocked doors, Saturday afternoon picture shows, plenty of mischief; Sunday church, and Wednesday prayer meetings; the arrival of the refrigerator, washing machine, air conditioning, television, and memories of presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Sufficient details are given of the tragic death of his father at age forty-five and the irrepressible determination of his widowed mother. These were simpler times and innocent times. Sis wistful narrative of growing up with big brother Jay will bring a smile to your face, as well as a touch of sadness for the loss of the positive side of an imperfect civilization that is lost forever. Dr. Terry L. Johnson (From the FOREWORD) For me to say that REMINISCENCES OF A CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY SOUTH is an interesting work is an extremely inadequate description of the book. Assuredly it is that, but it is much, much more than that! For me, it was no less than intellectually consuming and emotionally captivating as I was escorted back into a long-forgotten period of this nations innocent history. In addition, the book was rendered more personal to me than usual. My first wife, deceased now, was Foy Taylor, the daughter of T.F. and Lavinia Taylor; they were a part of this book. Paige Cothren (Pastor, Speaker, and Christian Counselor)

Download or read book Edward Farris In His Own Words Farmer Student Hitchhiker Soldier Father Politician Lobbyist Traveler Kentuckian written by Chad Evely and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I am attempting to start on an extended investigation and reporting of my past and my present."" With these words, Ed Farris began a fascinating 7.5-hour autobiographical audio recording: growing up in rural Kentucky in the 1920s, doing his part to liberate France in WWII, serving closely with two governors and so much more. Part 1 of this book contains Ed's wonderful story in his own unique voice. Marching across France towards the end of WWII, Ed was involved in many engagements. Part 2 contains the thrilling first-hand accounts of the two most significant of these battles. As executive secretary (now termed ""chief of staff"") from 1948-1955, Ed was intimately involved in the inner workings of Kentucky state politics. Part 3 contains all of his rich stories. He loved. He lost. He fought. He learned. He traveled. He raised four children and was beloved by eight grandchildren. Come take a journey and experience the unique, interesting story of this charming man's life.

Download or read book A Winding Road to the Land of Enchantment written by Gerald W. Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas recounts growing up on a ranch in Idaho during the Great Depression, playing baseball with Jackie and Mack Robinson, joining the Navy after Pearl Harbor, and serving as a TBM Torpedo Bomber pilot on aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific.

Download or read book My Model T Diaries written by Sarah Newberg and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you would have told Sarah ten years ago that she would have two Model T's parked in her garage, she would have told you that you were crazy. Model T's were her dad's thing. Fast forward ten years, Sarah is just as passionate for these cars as her dad was. Sarah's second book My Model Diaries: The Good, Bad, and the Funny is about her adventures and misadventures since her first book The Model T in Me. She has learned a lot in the last couple of years, such as to cra

Download or read book From Cottonfields to Clouds written by G. T. Childs, Chief Master Sergeant, U. S. Air Force and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cottonfields to Clouds By: G. T. Childs, Chief Master Sergeant, U. S. Air Force In this autobiography, G. T. Childs, a member of “The Greatest Generation,” tells the story of the first seventeen years of his life in a small community in East Texas. Through one engaging tale after another, Childs gives readers a feel for what life was like for one boy growing up in the 1920s and ’30s. Join into the story as Childs recounts the many adventures of his farmwork, his education, his religious upbringing, and his first encounters with a Ford Model T.